African Centre for Media Excellence
Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa
Alana Schetzer, University of Melbourne The rapid spread of fake news can influence millions of people, impacting elections and financial markets. A study on the impact of fake news on …
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A new UK aid package is to help promote media freedom in developing countries around the world, International Development Minister Harriet Baldwin announced on 10 July, 2019. One programme will …
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A group of 33 press freedom and media development organisations, meeting in London ahead of the Global Media Freedom Conference this week, have called on all participating States to ensure …
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Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town; Audrey Gadzekpo, University of Ghana, and Chris Paterson, University of Leeds An enormous and increasing portion of the foreign development aid coming into Africa …
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ACME’s online resource centre has a wealth of datasets, reports, backgrounders and studies to complement and deepen your reporting on public affairs in Uganda. New to the online resource centre …
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This month, ACME is publishing a series of articles based on its book, ‘Write Right Tight – Navigating Common Mistakes in News Reporting & Writing’ authored by award-winning journalist Richard M. Kavuma. This first article is based on the second chapter of the book, titled ‘On Writing Well’.
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WHAT? Training in data journalism with specific focus on data generated from Uganda’s oil, gas, and mining sectors. WHEN? Course A: Monday, 29 July—Thursday, 1 August 2019; Course B: Tuesday, …
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The last decade had seen some notable improvements in our journalism and today’s journalists are, in many ways, better trained than those before them. However a combination of structural and …
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