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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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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
Numbers in the Newsroom
Numbers in the Newsroom Resources
CountrySTAT Uganda CountrySTAT is a statistical framework and applied information system for analysis and policy-making designed in order to organize, integrate and disseminate statistical data and metadata on food and agriculture...
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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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When RWI created its media training program for Ghanaian and Ugandan journalists in 2009, the idea of increasing the quantity and quality of oil and mining coverage in those countries...
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