African Centre for Media Excellence
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Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town A recent report by an independent panel on the ethics and credibility of South Africa’s news media makes for worrying reading. The panel, headed …
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Julie Reid, University of South Africa This is an edited extract from Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in the News Media by Dale McKinley and Julie Reid. “If journalism is …
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This article was first published by the Ethical Journalism Network on March 18, 2020. By Hannah Storm, EJN Director For much of the past decade, I have worked in journalism …
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Denis Muller, University of Melbourne From an ethical perspective, covering the coronavirus story is really hard to do well. The reason for this lies in an inherent conflict between two …
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A select parliamentary committee constituted to investigate allegations of sexual violence in Uganda’s schools, colleges and universities has recommended strict legal measures to ensure survivors of sexual violence are protected by the media.
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George Ogola, University of Central Lancashire An article by the New York Times on the Riverside terrorist attacks in Nairobi has provoked fury and consternation in Kenya. The article features …
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You are a journalist and government has decided to give you 40 iron sheets. Would you accept them? That is the question being asked and debated in the northern Ugandan …
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