African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has released the first-ever national journalists’ survey report. This inaugural paints a portrait of …
Former Monitor workers run to labour office for alleged wrongful termination
Monitor Publications Limited (MPL) recently laid off several employees in what the company said was part of a major staff …
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 …
ACME to conduct study on state of the Ugandan newsroom
PRESS RELEASE The African Centre for Media Excellence is pleased to announce that it has commenced a national project that …
Churnalism: Have journalists given up their role to PR firms?
In the race for online eyeballs, the cardinal rule is that whoever publishes a story first gains an upper hand. …
Death by Covid-19, a eulogy for journalism as we knew it
By David Lumu It had been coming for many years. But the Covid-19 pandemic put a fine point on the …
Research report – Ugandan newspaper coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic
This study, conducted by the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), looks at Ugandan newspaper coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, …
Catholic lawyers demand apology for Daily Monitor cartoon that ‘demeans Jesus’
An editorial cartoon published by the Daily Monitor newspaper has drawn the ire of the Uganda Catholic Lawyers Society. A …