Winners of Uganda National Journalism Awards 2021 announced

African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has announced the winners of this year’s Uganda National Journalism Awards at a colourful cocktail party held at Mestil Hotel in Kampala.   The awards, organised by ACME since 2014, celebrate and promote exceptional, in-depth and enterprising journalism that informs public debate and holds the powerful to account. They are […]

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Journalists’ arrest focuses public debate on the ethics of investigative journalism

The detention of Ugandan journalist Solomon Serwanjja and his BBC colleagues by police has stoked debate about the role and ethics of investigative journalism. Serwanjja and journalists from the BBC were working on an exposé about government drugs that are stolen and sold in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and in private health […]

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Journalism is about changing lives, not just telling stories – NBS TV’s Solomon Serwanjja

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 for investigative journalism,” they said during the awards ceremony in April, “Serwanjja stands as a beacon of hope for the craft in Uganda and an […]

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