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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
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January 19, 2021

Court rules Media Council accreditation of journalists illegal  

The High Court in Kampala has quashed the Media Council of Uganda’s directive to accredit journalists to cover the 2021 …

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December 31, 2020

Police move to limit coverage of election campaigns

Image by Edward Echwalu from Echwalu Photography With just two weeks left to Uganda’s presidential and parliamentary elections, the Police …

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December 19, 2020

Is the push to accredit journalists legally tenable?

This article was first published in New Vision on 18 December, 2020. The Uganda Media Council, the regulator of journalists and the …

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December 16, 2020

Police to block unaccredited journalists from covering elections

The Uganda Police announced Monday that starting 21 December 2020, only journalists accredited by the Media Council of Uganda will …

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December 11, 2020

Uganda’s Media Council issues directive on registration of journalists; timing questioned

The Media Council of Uganda (MCU) has directed all practicing journalists in the country to register or risk being denied …

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December 11, 2020

STATEMENT: Let the media freely report the 2021 general election

For Immediate Release 11 December 2020 Kampala—African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is dismayed by the 10 December directive by …

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