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Accountability in Kenya’s media still needs attention. What can be done

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 - by Guest Writer - Leave a Comment

Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash. Jared Obuya, Moi University In Kenya, there’s growing debate about media accountability – that the media should act in the interests of the public good, …

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Why science matters so much in the era of fake news and fallacies

March 25, 2019July 4, 2019 - by Guest Writer - Leave a Comment

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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Journalists’ arrest focuses public debate on the ethics of investigative journalism

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 - by Harriet Anena - Leave a Comment

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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Media coverage of health in Uganda, July 2015-June 2017

January 10, 2019June 27, 2019 - by ACME team - Leave a Comment

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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Press Coverage of Public Affairs in Uganda, June 2013 – July 2017

November 5, 2018July 5, 2019 - by ACME team - Leave a Comment

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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How the media covered Kenya’s general election

August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 - by Guest Writer - Leave a Comment

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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ACME Report: Uganda media coverage of the Kaweesi killing

July 14, 2017August 1, 2017 - by ACME team - Leave a Comment

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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ACME research shows significant imbalance in public affairs coverage in Uganda’s press

July 12, 2017August 14, 2017 - by Harriet Anena - Leave a Comment

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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Did the Amendment of Public Finance Management Act 2015 Erode Uganda’s Fiscal Discipline in Oil and Gas Sector
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In December 2021, Parliament passed The Public Finance Management (Amendment) Act, a law that governs how public money and resources are mobilised or collected, stored, dispensed and reported on

Did the Amendment of Public Finance Management Act 2015 Erode Uganda’s Fiscal Discipline in Oil and Gas Sector
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