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Continuing and Mid-Career Training

The African Centre for Media Excellence offers specialised short training courses for practicing journalists. We also host public lectures, conferences, roundtable discussions and dialogues that highlight key issues around the intersection of journalism, media, communication, and public policy.

 

Media Literacy

The centre runs a media literacy training project aimed at helping public officials, members of civil society, the political class, business people, as well as high school leavers improve their skills in engaging with the media.

 

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Training Opportunity for Reporting on Oil, Gas and Minerals - May, 2012

This May, in Kampala, Uganda, Revenue Watch will begin the third class for African journalists seeking new expertise in reporting on oil, gas and minerals.   Without an informed, responsive media community providing oversight of the money from these industries, governance weakens, corruption rises and citizens lack the knowledge to hold their governments accountable and the opportunity to benefit fully from their country's natural resource wealth.   The application process is open to journalists from…
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Photography competition for Ugandan photojournalists

The Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Uganda (FCAU) has announced plans to run a photography competition for Ugandan photojournalists in 2012.   The winners, along with some of the Association members, will get a chance to showcase their work at a photo exhibition to be held in Kampala.   Michele Sibiloni, an AFP photojournalist who is organizing the competition, said, “There are many talented Ugandan photojournalists, and the exhibition will be a unique opportunity to promote our work together.”   The details of…
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Persephone Miel Fellowship

  Persephone Miel Fellowship Call for proposals to the Persephone Miel Fellowship for 2012 is now open. The deadline is February 15. The winner will be announced by March 15. The fellowship, overseen by the Pulitzer Center in collaboration with Internews, is designed to help media professionals outside of the United States do the kind of reporting they've always wanted to do, and enable them to bring their work to a broader international audience. The…
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Nieman Fellowships at Harvard for Journalists

The Nieman Foundation selects up to 12 International fellows each year. International Nieman Fellowships are reserved for citizens of nations other than the United States*, including journalists with non-U.S. citizenship working in the United States or working for U.S. media companies.   Since the first International fellow joined the class of 1951, fellows from 91 countries and territories have spent a year as a Nieman fellow.   Prospective Nieman fellows must be fluent in speaking,…

ACME Announces Parliamentary Reporting Training Workshop

The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) in conjunction with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) will be conducting a parliamentary reporting training workshop for senior and mid-level reporters from Tuesday 22nd to Friday 25th November at our base in Bunga, Kampala.   The training is part of the efforts by the Westminster Consortium for Parliaments and Democracy (TWC) to strengthen the governance role of parliaments.   The training workshop is open to journalists who cover…
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Advanced Training on Regional Integration Reporting

Application deadline is 2nd November The East African Community Secretariat in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), formerly GTZ and the Deutsche Welle Akademie, is to conduct an advanced training on regional integration reporting between 23 November and 3 December in Bujumbura, Burundi.   The training is meant to achieve greater knowledge and understanding of the concept of regional integration in general and of the Organs, Institutions and policies of the EAC.…
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Training by Topic

The African Centre for Media Excellence offers specialised short training courses for practicing journalists with support from various partners. Some of the partners include the Revenue Watch Institute, Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau.

A range of courses are offered in various aspects of journalism including but not limited to; ICT, New Media and Society, Media, Peace and Conflict, Media and the Environment, Media, Democracy and Human Rights, Media Law, Policy and Regulation, Investigative Journalism, Public Affairs Reporting, Community and Alternative Media, Media Ethics and Media management

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Numbers in the Newsroom

E. Africa’s NMG hires numeracy editor

The Nation Media Group (NMG), East Africa’s biggest media organisation, has decided to hire a specialist to “enforce numerical accuracy” in response to a common problem in journalism—innumeracy. “Our...

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Editors, journalists trained

Editors, journalists trained

The series of “Numbers and the News” workshops kicked off on Thursday, 28th April with senior editors from various media houses at the ACME training centre in Bunga.   The training attracted...

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Reporting Oil and Gas

About the project

The African Centre for Media Excellence has developed a programme with the Revenue Watch Institute and the Thomson Reuters Foundation to teach journalists how to report effectively on oil and...

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The Oil Debate

The ninth Parliament debated Uganda's oil sector on October 10 and 11, 2011 and passed a number or resolutions in a bid to regularize the sector.   The heated debates covered various aspects...

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