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Today, Reuters Institute and Carbon Brief launched the Global South Climate Database, with hundreds of climate scientists and experts from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Pacific. It’s been months in the making. Here’s what it’s about.

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A one-stop shop of mental health resources for journalists journalism.co.uk/ampnews/mental…

The call for applications for the 2023 Chevening Awards🇬🇧 Africa Media Freedom Fellowship closes in two days.

Fellows will undertake a bespoke 7-week fellowship programme at University of Westminster

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We created a special newsletter about the ongoing #LandandConflictConference2022 , outlining all ILC Africa-led sessions.

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📌 Beyond crashes and definitely beyond crashes involving 'important people'. Make road safety an everyday story. There's so much to write about it. Sensitise. Educate.

The second session of media orientations for journalists reporting on the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Uganda is underway at Fairway Hotel in Kampala.
#EbolaOutbreakUG #CoveringEbola

ACME conducted the training as part of an 18-month project funded by Global Road Safety Partnership. The journalists were drawn from print, radio, television, and online platforms.
Take a look at a compendium of stories produced by the journalists bit.ly/3VS5E8y #RoadSafetyUG

“We are heading to that time of year when road crashes tend to rise. Uganda is losing a lot of people in preventable circumstances. Journalists need to keep a keen eye”— Ronald Musoke

“Most journalists need training on reporting road safety. Training such as that provided by ACME has been a game changer to relate road safety issues to issues that people interested. For example the burden it puts on the economy.”— Zurah Nakabugo

#RoadSafetyUG #ACMEResearch

“There is a tendency of editors, deliberately not giving space to road safety stories. I think editors need to understand that road safety goes beyond crashes. There’s more to it than reporting just the number of people who have died in a crash”— Roland D. Nasasira #ACMEResearch

.Charles O. Bichachi on the compendium of road safety stories: The stories have humanised the road safety issue by bringing the perspective of victims. We see real people and how they have been affected.
#RoadSafetyUG #ACMEResearch

The study shows that the quality of coverage of road safety did not significantly differ from what was observed in the baseline. Previous findings, such as the predominance of event-based reporting & gender-imbalanced sourcing, remained evident in the current study #RoadSafetyUG

Media platforms covered
-Three main newspapers; Bukedde, Daily Monitor, and New Vision
-Three TV Stations; NBS, NTV, and UBC
-Two online platforms; – ChimpReports and TND News
Analysed 402 newspaper articles, 230 television stories and 117 online
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