African Centre for Media Excellence
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Image by vishnu vijayan from Pixabay BACKGROUND The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is undertaking a research project to monitor media coverage of the 2021 General Elections. The purpose of the project …
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By John Baptist Wasswa In terms of news values, drama, impact or consequence, and human interest have never occupied the print media in Uganda in such profound ways as during …
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This study, conducted by the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), looks at Ugandan newspaper coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing mainly on five influential publications. The study explores the …
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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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PHOTO: Makerere journalism lecturer, Adolf Mbaine, presenting the study results. A study on media self-regulation in Uganda has shown that there is broad support for non-State regulation of the media. …
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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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