African Centre for Media Excellence
Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa
By Benon Herbert Oluka In a year when the COVID-19 pandemic nearly ground the world to a halt for a considerable part of the 12 months, I conversely had more …
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The African Centre for Media Excellence has conducted a series of studies on Uganda’s media coverage of the 2021 General Election. The studies carried out between October and December observed …
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As Ugandans prepared to vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections on 14 January 2021, more and more of the internet gradually slipped out of reach. The disruption started on …
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By Joachim Buwembo Anything can happen anytime We started off 2020 with lots of optimism. In a sports-loving country Uganda, we looked forward to a respectable gold harvest at the …
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This article was first published in New Vision on 18 December, 2020. The Uganda Media Council, the regulator of journalists and the print media in the country, has finally made it back …
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The Media Council of Uganda (MCU) has directed all practicing journalists in the country to register or risk being denied rights to cover the electoral process and other events. The …
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The question of safety of journalists in the line of duty has returned to foreground civic discourse about the democratic credentials, or the lack thereof, of Uganda’s ongoing electioneering. This …
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Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey, Rhodes University COVID-19 has distressed societies to the core. Among the fault lines it has exposed is the fact that gender bias remains rampant in news coverage. …
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