African Centre for Media Excellence
Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa
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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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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Photo by unsplash-logoBenjamin Dada Jennifer Ellen Good, Brock University From fictitious organizations posting polarizing messages on Facebook to robustly researched news stories being labelled “fake,” the pervasive power and importance …
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Incidents of violence and abuse against the media increased in 2018, according to a newly-released Press Freedom Index. The Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) in its 10th edition of …
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The following paper on Media and Elections in Uganda was presented by Dr Livingstone Sewanyana, Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative at the World Press Freedom Day …
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Uganda Communications Commission has been challenged about its heavy-handed approach to perceived threats to public order by the media. Speaking at a World Press Freedom Day 2019 conference in Kampala, …
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For Immediate Release 2 May 2019 Kampala The African Centre for Media Excellence strongly condemns the directive by Uganda Communications Commission, the broadcast regulator, to seven radio and six television …
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Last year, New Vision photo editor Jimmy Adriko resigned. Adriko, who joined the paper in 1991 as a photographer, spoke to ACME about his 27-year photojournalism journey. What inspired your …
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