This simple booklet from the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) contains simple tips to help you stay safe both online and offline. It is meant to give you practical advice on how to navigate the challenges of reporting in today’s world, particularly in situations of conflict or tension. Our goal is to help you […]
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On 8 April 2020, Dr Peter Mwesige, ACME’s executive director, spoke with NTV’s Josephine Karungi on journalists’ safety while covering Uganda’s enforcement of measures to fight COVID-19 and related issues. The interview came in the wake of ACME’s issuance of a statement condemning the assault on several journalists by security services since Uganda declared a […]
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This article was originally published on unesco.org. More than a thousand journalists were killed between 2006 and 2017, according to a UNESCO report published ahead of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, 2 November. Last year, the percentage of journalists murdered in countries free of armed conflict (55%) exceeded that of journalists […]
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