African Centre for Media Excellence
Inspiring excellent journalism across Africa
Uganda’s general election season is well and truly underway. Party nominations for local government, parliamentary and presidential seats are ongoing. Social media is flooded with candidates’ posters, campaign promises and …
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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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Driven. Passionate. Dogged. Intrepid. These are some of the words that judges of the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2017 use to describe Solomon Serwanjja. “In an age of declining funding …
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BY BENON HERBERT OLUKA Criticism of the respective decisions by former Daily Monitor managing editor Don Wanyama and investigations editor Chris Obore – among others – to quit journalism for government jobs …
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Every day the public in Uganda looks to the media for news on investment, information about their children’s education, investigations that hold the powerful to account, and solutions to persistent …
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By Bernard Tabaire Wrongly spelt words – even of names of sources one has interviewed – atrocious punctuation, and context-free stories are the most irritating things for me about our …
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Journalists and the media as a whole, in any democratic society, play a critical role in holding, receiving and imparting all forms of opinion, ideas and information. Therefore, the importance …
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In April 2014, Daily Monitor’s Executive Editor Malcolm Gibson embarked on reorganising the newsroom based on “transparency”, as he and his team pursue “quality journalism”. He released an editor/reporter checklist, …
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