African Centre for Media Excellence
Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa
Science journalism and investigative journalism which seek to pursue the truth rather than just the reporting of events, are critically important in this age of fake news and fallacies.
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The detention of Ugandan journalist Solomon Serwanjja and his BBC colleagues by police has stoked debate about the role and ethics of investigative journalism. Serwanjja and journalists from the BBC …
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This report contains findings from research on newspaper coverage of health in Uganda between July 2015 and June 2017 conducted by African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) in the last …
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The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) conducted a series of studies on press coverage of public affairs in Uganda to provide systematic evidence to inform evaluations and judgements of the media’s performance.
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This article was first published by The Conversation. By George W. Gathigi, Lecturer, University of Nairobi The media has been a critical part of the Kenyan election process. But did they …
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On Friday, 17 March 2017, Assistant Inspector General of Police Andrew Felix Kaweesi, who was the force’s spokesperson, was shot dead in the city suburb of Kulambiro, where he lived. …
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Stories about criminal justice, police, politics and democratic processes received the lion’s share of public affairs coverage in Uganda’s print media from July 2015 to June 2016, a study by …
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On March 31st, the Supreme Court of Uganda dismissed an election petition filed by presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi challenging the re-election of President Yoweri Museveni in February 2016. Mr Mbabazi sighted …
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