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5 years later: Uganda’s media and the lessons from COVID-19

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 presented an unprecedented global challenge that significantly transformed the media industry. Journalists faced a complex crisis characterised by rapidly shifting narratives, government-imposed restrictions, economic disruption, evolving scientific knowledge, and a flood of misinformation. In response, the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) conducted two studies in 2020 […]

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Research report on Ugandan media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and other public affairs 2020

This study describes Ugandan news media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic and other public affairs topics, focusing mainly on five key publications and three television stations. The study explores the attention these publications and television stations paid to the Covid-19 pandemic from 1 January to 31 December 2020, and the nature of coverage. The publications […]

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How coronavirus has changed the world of sports reporting – and made the job harder

Tim Abraham, Liverpool John Moores University Beaten in India, in Test and One Day International cricket, the usual tour postmortem for England’s cricketers has got under way, though with a slightly different feel to usual years given it was the first time in living memory that the cricket media were not part of the winter […]

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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 the fact that gender bias remains rampant in news coverage. A recent special report – The Missing Perspectives of Women in COVID-19 News – shows that too few women experts have been quoted on the […]

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Areas of capacity building for journalists: Reflections from the COVID-19 response in Uganda

Photo by Charles Nambasi from Pixabay First, let me commend the Ugandan journalists who have gone to great lengths, sometimes at great risk to their own safety and lives, to tell the Covid-19 story. Recently a senior Ministry of Health official told us journalists are a high risk group, and 50 had contracted Covid-19. So, […]

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Speech by Nicole Bjerler- Head of DGF at Uganda National Journalism Awards 2020

Photo by Katumba Badru Full text of the speech by Nicole Bjerler, Head of the Democratic Governance Facility- Uganda, at the 2020 Uganda National Journalism Awards 2020.  Ladies and Gentlemen,  I am very honoured to join you here at this year’s Uganda National Journalism Awards, organized by ACME with funding support from the DGF.  I […]

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How to read coronavirus news and learn what you actually need to know about staying safe in the pandemic

Thomas J. Hrach, University of Memphis With COVID-19, a news story that may be 100% accurate can still unintentionally mislead readers about the greatest threats of the pandemic. The unintended outcome results from a lesson taught to every journalism student: Use “real people” to “humanize” the news. The “real person” in COVID-19 stories may be […]

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