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Reporting on land issues can feel overwhelming due to their complexity & the often slow pace of change. Where do you begin? How can you take your reporting further?
Our 🆕 resource, A Guide to Reporting Land Issues, offers some ideas you can use.
👇🏾👇🏾
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@GalaxyFMUg
The media has a powerful role in shaping public opinion. It's disheartening to see a media company contributing to stigma. Instead, I urge you to use your platform responsibly and strive for better.
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ACME is deeply saddened by the death of
@ntvuganda
journalist Edward Muhumuza who lost his life in a car crash this morning.
Our condolences go to his family, colleagues and the entire media fraternity. Muhumuza won the Land and property rights reporting award last year.
#RIP
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Exciting news!
(1/4) Today, ACME signed a partnership agreement with the Royal Danish Embassy (
@DKinUganda
) to launch the Media Support for Public Accountability & Civic Engagement (M-SPACE) project. It empowers 🇺🇬 media to play a stronger role in holding govt accountable.
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The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Emilly Maractho as the new Chair of its Board of Directors.
The announcement ➡️
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“I remember selling my 50 decimal plot in Kira to go to Dubai to buy furnishings for the ACME office. And when our first funders visited the office, they were in awe”—
@pmwesige
talks about the early days of ACME
Photo of ACME before the renovation
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This weekend we celebrate and honour Bernard Tabaire, ACME's co-founder and long-serving director of programmes.
@PTabaire
has stepped down as DoP to spread his wings and carry ACME's mission to the wider world.
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Congratulations to Susan Nsibirwa on her appointment as the new Managing Director of Monitor Publications Limited. 🙌🏾🎉
@SueNsibirwa
, ACME's current board chair, is a fantastic and capable addition to the NMG Uganda team.
Hongera! 💃🏾🥳
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The winner of the Arts Reporting Award for the story, ‘Bobi Wine: The poster boy of defiance music’ is FRANK WALUSIMBI of NTV Uganda
#ACMEAwards2020
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Two loud explosions were heard in Kampala this morning. If you are covering this story, take a look at these guidelines for covering bomb threats
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“I boast of the title award-winning journalist because that achievement alone pushes you to do better.”-
@CultonScovia
winner of the local reporting award in 2020
#ACMEAwards2022
sponsored by
@mtnug
@TotalEnergiesUG
@Stanbicuganda_
@NBLUganda
@CentenaryBank
@UgandaCAA
@nssfug
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The winner of the Public Works and Infrastructure Reporting Award is
@CanaryMugume
of NBS Television for reporting that provided an in-depth and informative 360-degree analysis of Uganda’s infrastructure crisis
#ACMEAwards2021
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Stand up for journalists! A free press that provides facts and promotes critical thinking is our strongest bulwark against the ‘disinfodemic’.
#WorldPressFreedomDay
#PressFreedom
#WPFDUG
#Covid19
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🎉 Huge congrats to Esther Oluka and Elizabeth Kamurugi from
@DailyMonitor
for clinching the Business Reporting award at the Uganda National Journalism Awards! 🏆📰 A well-deserved recognition! 🙌👏
#ACMEAwards2023
#UNJA2023
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Read our press release calling upon the government to rein in members of the armed forces who are now presiding over this frightening erosion of press freedom and free expression in Uganda.
#Journalismisnotacrime
#Uganda
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Congratulations Samalie Kisakye of
@NBSTV
for winning the Best TV Investigative Story at
#HIVmediaawardsUG
.
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ACME's own Harriet Anena is the 2018 joint winner of the Whole Soyinka Prize for Literature. 🎊 🎊
Super happy to be the joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, 2018, for my book A Nation in Labour.
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Celebrating the winner of the
#UNJA2023
Arts and Culture Reporting award.🥳🥂 The winner is CULTON SCOVIA NAKAMYA!
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Dead journalists do not tell stories, so we must encourage journalists to ensure that their safety comes first-
@pmwesige
on
#pwjk
@ntvuganda
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Pressure to bury the truth threatens a free press.
#WorldPressFreedomDay
is a reminder that a free and independent media is necessary to hold power accountable and report on the truth, no matter how murky the waters get.
#PressForThePlanet
#WPFDUG
Cartoon by
@chrisatuk
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Police close two radio stations in Jinja, arrest journalists over election results
#UGDecides2021
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Meet some of the female award winners
1.
@GillianNantume
—
@ntvuganda
2.
@zurahnakabugo
—
@observerug
3.
@WATSEMBAMIRIAM
—
@infoNILE
4.
@CultonScovia
—
@bbstvug
#ACMEAwards2022
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Eight journalists beaten on orders of military officer at UN Human Rights office
#Journalismisnotacrime
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ACME is set to host the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2022 on 14 December.
Racheal Akidi Okwir, the Head of East Africa for
@BBCWorld
will give a keynote speech— “Covering Africa in a rapidly changing digital landscape.”
#ACMEAwards2022
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ACME strongly condemns the directive by UCC to radio and TV stations to suspend key editorial staff. The 30 April 2019 order is reprehensible and arbitrary and must be reversed immediately.
#PressFreedomUG
#Journalismisnotacrime
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Join us in congratulating GERALD TENYWA of New Vision for coming in second place in the environmental reporting category of
#UNJA2023
.🏆
#ACMEAwards2023
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“No country that considers itself a free and democratic society should ever have to shutdown the internet for anything”—
@qataharraymond
shares his thoughts on internet shutdowns and other internet restrictions in Uganda
#InternetFreedomUG
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A
#WorldPressFreedomDay
reminder:
In our quest for a sustainable future, free & independent media are our partners, not foes. Our voices & experiences, shared through a free media, are necessary to tell powerful stories for change.
#PressforthePlanet
Cartoon by
@chrisatuk
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💫🪘📢
ACME is officially a member organisation of the Global Investigative Journalism Network! We're honored to join the incredible
@gijn
community and to contribute to the growth of impactful journalism across Africa.
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The Uganda National Journalism Awards 2022 are open for entries! The awards are open to professional journalists and independent content producers working in print, television, radio and online news platforms
Details
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ACME congratulates Dr Monica Chibita on her installation as the first female board chair of
@VisionGrp
. 🤲🏾👍🏾Dr Chibita, who also serves as ACME's current board chair, is the head of the mass comm department at Uganda Christian University.
#WomeninMedia
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As we commemorate
#WorldPressFreedomDay
, let's remember that simply making information available is not enough for today’s audience. Journalism standards such as fact-checking, story contextualization and thorough reporting must be maintained
#WPFD2022
Illustration |
@chrisatuk
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Today we launch new partnerships for the Uganda National Journalism Awards.
#UNJA2022
#ACMEAwards2022
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NEWS RELEASE: We should all condemn attacks on journalists. These actions are not only threatening journalists but also the free flow of information, which is especially vital during this election period
@nbstv
@newvisionwire
@DailyMonitor
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Today, ACME welcomed the 3rd cohort of journalists that are training on knowledge-based reporting on road safety. We believe that consistent, high quality media coverage is a vital tool to enhance road safety awareness & public debate in 🇺🇬
#RoadSafetyUg
#SafeRoadsSaveLives
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Culton Scovia Nakamya of
@bbstvug
wins the Urbanisation and Human Settlements Reporting Award.
Her work exemplifies a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges of communities across Uganda faced with rapid urbanisation and population growth
#UNJA2024
#ACMEAwards
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ACME has sealed a new partnership with
@SEATINIUGANDA
to strengthen media monitoring, research and reporting on trade, fiscal and investment and other related issues.
Executive Directors of the two organisations signed a memorandum of understanding today at the ACME office.
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“I hope to give my best and I hope the results will speak louder than I ever could,” says
@jkkarungi
Congratulations from us, and all the best!
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To provide journalists with resources to do quality reporting on oil and gas,
@ACME_Uganda
has put together datasets on revenue collection, revenue allocation and population trends on the portal . Here’s a thread of highlights👇🏿
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#WeekinReview
Celebrating Culton Scovia Nakamya, winner of the 2023 Inspiring Female Journalist Award at the Uganda National Journalism Awards.
#GoodJournalismMatters
#UNJA2023
#ACMEAwards2023
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Drumroll, please! 🥁
We're excited to unveil the shortlist of finalists for the 10th Annual Uganda National Journalism Awards! 🏅🎙️📰📸
Check out the full list and join us on 31 July to celebrate journalistic excellence.
#UNJA2024
#ACMEAwards
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Thank you
@newvisionwire
for gifting us today with an invaluable piece of Uganda's political & media history. Great job!
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Signed and sealed.
We appreciate the support of our sponsors who have made this possible. On 14 December will celebrate quality journalism with the awards gala.
#UNJA2022
#ACMEAwards2022
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The
#HIVmediaawardsUG
winner of the Best TV News Story is
@MwesigyeWalter
of
@ntvuganda
. Congratulations!
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Winner of the national news reporting (broadcast) award is the story, ‘Stealing from the sick’ by SOLOMON SERWANJJA, GODFREY BADEBYE and KASSIM MOHAMMED of NBS Television
#ACMEAwards20
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The winner of the Arts Reporting Award is Frank Walusimbi of NTV Uganda for the story, ‘The impact of Covid-19 on the arts’
#ACMEAwards2021
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Today is a special day at ACME as we host a gathering of women in media and communication, to discuss and debate progress and steps to defend women's voices online and offline.
#ProtectWomensVoices
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Editorial independence puts public interest first. It puts your health first. It holds the powerful accountable. It's in all our favour.
#WorldPressFreedomDay
#PressFreedom
#covid19
#WPFDUG
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Throwback to Uganda National Journalism Awards 2016. When
@tajudeennash1
of
@DailyMonitor
won the Sports Reporting award for his story- "Juggling sports and fasting: Muslims face a tough choice."
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ACME is pleased to announce a call for entries for the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2023.
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“You can not know the inconsistency, if you have not been consistently following up an issue,” NMG-Uganda’s
@qataharraymond
leads a session on the key pillars in covering public accountability.
#ACMETraining
#JournalismUG
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📢📢 🏆 🏆
The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) is pleased to announce the shortlisted entries for the 2022 edition of the Uganda National Journalism Awards.
#UNJA2022
#ACMEAwards2022
Details👇🏾👇🏾
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📢📢
Uganda National Journalism Awards 2020 shortlist released today!
Full list 👇🏿
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He walked 340km from Kampala to Bushenyi to raise awareness on road safety. Joseph Beyanga, alias Joe Walker will lead the conversation on road safety.
Join the Twitter space hosted by ACME at 6:00pm tomorrow
#BeAlertArriveAlive
#SaferRoadsSaveLives
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Once one of the “highest paid journalists in Uganda”,
@barbaraamong
says the migration of journalists from newsrooms to other fields is more than just money. “Career progression is key.”
How best can newsrooms help journalists progress?
#WhyJournalismUG
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Daily Monitor's Managing Editor,
@tbutagira
receives the Science and Technology Reporting Award accolade on behalf of the winner,
@PaulMurungiUg
Editors—the unsung heroes, making sure the spotlight shines just right! 😉
#UNJA2024
#ACMEAwards
Award presented by
@UCC_Official
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In the news today: Six journalists from Nation Media Group-Uganda scooped prizes at the Uganda National journalism Awards
#ACMEAwards20
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Our online content producer,
@MissMuhindo
is representing ACME at the Global Road Safety Africa Regional Partners Meeting in Accra, Ghana. Today she presented a report on ACME’s work on road safety advocacy
#roadsafetyug
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🏆📣 The stage is set to celebrate the finest in Ugandan journalism. Introducing the finalists of the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2023. 🥂We salute their achievements and honour all 186 journalists that competed for an award. ✨
#UNJA2023
#ACMEAwards
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Freedom of the media is a keystone to enabling citizen's rights to freedom of expression and access to information. Journalists are essential in creating spaces for ideas to be debated and for the voiceless to be heard.
#WorldPressFreedomDay
#PressFreedomUG
Image:
@chrisatuk
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🔔🔔
ACME is pleased to announce the shortlist of finalists of the highly anticipated Uganda National Journalism Awards 2021.
We congratulate all the finalists. 🎉🎉
#ACMEAwards21
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Herbert Kamoga, a reporter at
@ntvuganda
was the 2nd runner-up in the local reporting category in 2021. He shares his thoughts on the Uganda National Journalism wards.
This year's gala will be held on 14 December.
#ACMEAwards2022
#UNJA2022
@HerbertKamoga
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Field trips are a critical component of our modules. Journalists taking part in our oil and gas reporting short course visited
@upikuganda
yesterday, to learn about its work, laboratories and interact with the students.
#ACMEtrips
@BiryomumaishoB
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We're pleased to announce the finalists of the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2022. 🎉🎉
See the thread below for the shortlisted entries for each of the
#ACMEAwards2022
categories.
#UNJA2022
👇🏿👇🏿
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📢📢ACME is excited to announce the return of the Uganda National Journalism Awards, the country's biggest celebration of journalism excellence.
We look forward to recognising YOU. Submission of entries starts today.
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In his personal experience as Kenya’s chief justice,
@WMutunga
says he faced a multitude of pressures: the seduction of power; attempts to ethnicized his public office; corporate & international community interests; civil society; and family.
#ACMELecture
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Since its inception, the Uganda National Journalism Awards have been funded by development partners. Today, we are excited to announce that we have been joined by corporate and civil society partners
@mtnug
@Stanbicuganda_
@TotalEnergiesUG
@cipesaug
@NblUg
@UgandaCAA
#UNJA2022
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Collaborative journalism is becoming increasingly popular. Award-winning investigative journalist
@SolomonSerwanjj
says: “We need to look at investigative journalism in public interest, rather than just competing with each other.”
#WhyJournalismUG
@AfricanIIJ
🎥
@joshua_mitala
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Did you spot any familiar faces in our first Uganda National Journalism Awards throwback?
Here's another look back of the past 10 years! Can you identify some of our past finalists & winners?
Stay tuned, because the
#UNJA2024
winners will be unveiled TODAY!🏆
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"One of the greatest challenges of the media is covering media issues. We can cover teachers' strikes... but we do not speak about our own issues... Can we write, can we have beats dedicated to media issues?"- Rachel Mugarura-Mutana, ACME's Training Manager at
#eastfest2022
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Esther Oluka of
@DailyMonitor
is the Inspiring Female Journalist of the Year!
She has navigated the challenging landscape of journalism with tenacity and grace, overcoming obstacles and breaking new ground.
Congratulations, Esther!
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"Many young people have been told about the importance of investigative journalism. But when they get to newsrooms, they learn about story count. How many of us have managers who have the patience to allow us do these investigative stories?"-
@pmwesige
#InvestigativeJournalismUG
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What’s the take home? Students joined panelists in group discussions to identify challenges affecting the media industry today and generate ideas that they can implement.
The future is here!
#UCUcareersymposium
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Submission of entries for the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2018 closes in two days. Don't miss the deadline. Submit your best work of 2017 today.
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Data from
@freedomhouse
shows that internet freedom in Uganda significantly declined in 2021 due to digital restrictions and internet shutdowns imposed. Share your thoughts and experiences
#InternetFreedomUG
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NATIONAL NEWS REPORTING (PRINT)
WINNER: Gillian Nantume,
@DailyMonitor
for the story: November riots: The lives we lost
#ACMEAwards2022
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ACME with support from the
@FordFoundation
will deliver a short, hands-on course for journalists in Uganda on fact-checking. Apply 👇👇
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PhD (Journalism and Communication), Makerere University.
Congratulations to our board member,
@Marjkyom
Research Topic: Family Planning Communication in Uganda: An interrogation of media reporting, communication campaigns and audience perspectives
#Mak72ndGrad
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All is set for the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2021.
The invite-only event is scheduled to take place at Mestil Hotel in Kampala, tomorrow.
We will have a livestream on our YouTube Channel- ACME Uganda. Follow
#ACMEAwards2021
here for updates
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We are back at the training centre for the second part of our programme- Reporting land and property rights. Today,
@IMChallengeug
CEO
@MpindiAbaas
leads a session on Solutions Journalism
#ACMETraining
#LandRights
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Today we're grateful for all the women in media and communication who joined us in Kampala to develop an action plan to push back against gendered freedom of expression violations. We celebrate you this
#InternationalWomensDay2023
#ProtectWomensVoices
#EmbraceEquity
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#WeekinReview
Celebrating
@SNabakooza1
and Godfrey Badebye co-winners of the public accountability reporting category at the 2023 Uganda National Journalism Awards.
#GoodJournalismMatters
#UNJA2023
#ACMEAwards2023
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“What is the cost of independence of the judiciary?” asks
@WMutunga
at the
#ACMELecture
on media and politics in Africa. Sometimes it will cost you your life.
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ACME will join
@UCUjourncom
tomorrow at its annual career symposium. Our session will provide participants with a comprehensive exploration of alternative career paths beyond traditional journalism jobs and the significance of these career paths in shaping media practice
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Education Reporting Award Winners
SOLOMON SERWANJJA and THOMAS KITIMBO of NBS Television for the story ‘Mature before 18’
#ACMEAwards2020
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Day 2: Delving deeper into Uganda's energy future! ⚡️📸📰
Passionate journalists with a thirst for knowledge fueled our learning journey. 🙌🏾
Huge thanks to
@MEMD_Uganda
and
@graUganda
helping us unpack the 🇺🇬
#EnergyTransition
plan, and suggesting great story ideas. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
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This week, ACME is hosting a workshop for 🇺🇬 journalists on reporting the critical intersection of off-grid renewable energy & agriculture. We're exploring investigative techniques & storytelling methods to effectively cover this increasingly important topic in today's world.
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Congratulations! 🙌🏿🎉
With these additions to the
@JocomMakerere
faculty, we are excited about what lies ahead.
Congratulations
@FKakooza
@ivanlukanda
@GeraldWalulya
on your promotion to Senior Lecturer. And to you
@marionalina
@Marjkyom
&
@Imokola
, your ascension to Lecturer is no mean feat. Looking forward to your continued contribution to journalism, media &communication
#DJCResearch
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Our three-day training workshop on gender-responsive and conflict-sensitive reporting has kicked off this morning at Golf Course Hotel in Kampala. The training is supported by
@UnescoEast
50 journalists from print, online and broadcast media across Uganda
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Congratulations to our Chairperson, Board of Directors, Ms
@SueNsibirwa
for being listed among Uganda’s top 50 most accomplished people in marketing by
@EvolveAfrica1
🎉🍾
Read her profile here
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The principle of independence of the judiciary is not just a matter for judicial officers. It is for all people to know and uphold. -
@WMutunga
at
#ACMELecture
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🚨🚨
ACME is thrilled to announce that the 10th edition of the Uganda National Journalism Awards is open for entries! 🏆🏅Check out the
#UNJA2024
NEW subject categories and awards for media institutions, and submit your best work today.
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