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African Centre for Media Excellence

African Centre for Media Excellence

Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa

  • About ACME
    • Who we are
    • ACME secretariat
    • ACME board
    • Mission, vision and values
    • Contact us
  • ACME programmes
    • Advocacy
    • Continuing and mid-career training
    • Media literacy and media relations
    • Media monitoring and research
    • Uganda National Journalism Awards
  • Research and publications
  • Freedom of expression violations
  • Open data
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March 29, 2021

CLOSED – Reporting health and HIV/AIDS in Uganda

African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) in partnership with the United States Mission in Uganda invites applications for a course …

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November 24, 2020

The media have muted the voices of women during COVID-19: can the tide be turned?

Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey, Rhodes University COVID-19 has distressed societies to the core. Among the fault lines it has exposed is …

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August 25, 2020

Media reporting on mental illness, violence and crime needs to change

Anna Ross, University of Melbourne; Elizabeth Paton, University of Newcastle, and Michelle Blanchard, University of Melbourne The media is a …

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April 10, 2020

Covering biomedical research preprints amid the coronavirus: 6 things to know

By Denise-Marie Ordway This article was originally published on Journalist’s Resource on April 2, 2020. As a new coronavirus spreads …

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March 26, 2020

Covering COVID-19 and the coronavirus: 5 tips from a Harvard epidemiology professor

By Denise-Marie Ordway, Journalist’s Resource Originally published on March 6, 2020 For several weeks, journalists and researchers worldwide have worked …

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March 26, 2020

Media ethics, safety and mental health: Reporting in the time of COVID-19

This article was first published by the Ethical Journalism Network on March 18, 2020. By Hannah Storm, EJN Director For …

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March 25, 2020

Why Africa’s journalists aren’t doing a good job on COVID-19

George Ogola, University of Central Lancashire The media’s coverage of COVID-19 is being questioned as the disease sweeps across the …

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March 21, 2020

The role of journalists in the midst of COVID-19 – Inform. Explain. Educate.

Dear journalist, The enormity of the COVID-19 crisis should not stop you from holding our political leaders and other forms …

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