Media houses globally are grappling with how best to produce quality content and remain financially viable in the wake of shrinking revenues, technological disruptions, the emergence of peripheral content creators, competition for advertisement revenues from big tech platforms, the COVID-19 pandemic and a myriad of other changes in the media ecosystem. Despite these challenges, it […]
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This is a selection of stories on road safety in Uganda written and produced by some of the journalists that participated in ACME’s fellowship on covering road safety in 2021 and 2022. ACME conducted the fellowship as part of an 18-month project delivered in partnership with the Global Road Safety Partnership. The stories were examined and […]
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Uganda predominantly relies on the road to move goods and people. However, this dominant mode of transport is unsafe. According to the 2018 Road Safety Performance Review, the country loses about 10 people daily in road traffic crashes, the highest level in East Africa. The causes range from poor condition of vehicles to poor road […]
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Studying the state of the newsroom is invaluable in understanding the media and the environment in which journalists work. Understanding the newsroom environment is essential because it not only helps people to grasp the realities within the country’s newsrooms but also, more significantly, how these realities have either a positive or negative bearing on media […]
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The Tanzania media industry grew steadily over the past two decades. This growth, which primarily occurred in broadcast and online media, triggered a rise in journalism training institutions and an increase in the number of journalism professionals countrywide. Although much has been written about the intersection of journalism/media and public affairs in Tanzania, not much […]
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This report examines Kenyan news media coverage of the 2022 elections, focusing on four key publications, nine television stations, 11 radio stations, and three digital media channels. The report explores the attention Kenyan print media, television, digital media, and radio stations paid to election-related news and issues from 1 May 2022—to 8 August 2022 and […]
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Newspapers in Kenya have primarily focused on the two top contenders, William Ruto and Raila Odinga, paid less attention to key policy issues and hardly interrogated the claims made by candidates, an ongoing study monitoring the country’s media coverage of the 2022 elections has shown. The study by the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) […]
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The onset of the impact of the COVID-19 containment measures by the Government of Kenya upon the declaration of the virus as a pandemic in March 2019 included increased violation of press freedom and access to information. Among the measures announced by the Government included a national lockdown of the country, mandatory putting on of […]
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