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The Uganda Press Photo Award Is Now Open for Entries

Photographers have up to August 31st to submit their work in order to be considered for the Uganda Press Photo Award (UPPA). The award ceremony will take place in October at the Makerere art gallery and is organized by the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Uganda (FCAU) together with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Vision Group donates computers to Journalism Department

Vision Group has donated 18 computers to the Department of Journalism and Communication, Makerere University as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility.
Speaking at the handover ceremony held at the Department premises on 22nd February, 2013, the Group Board Chairman, Mr David Ssebabi, said that the donation is one of the company’s interventions aimed at promoting skills and professionalism among journalism students.

MINISTER URGES MEDIA TO PRODUCE CHILDREN CONTENT

BY SAMUEL KAMUGISHA

The State Mnister in-charge of the elderly and disabilities, Hon. Sulaiman Kyebakoze Madada has urged the media to produce more and quality content for children.
Opening the two-day annual media convention at Fairway Hotel in Kampala, Hon. Madada is concerned that media content is concentrating on the middle class and love matters hence neglecting children issues.

“They are merely entertaining and talking on middle class and purely love matters,”Hon. Madada said 

The Annual Media Conference Is On This Week

BY SAMUEL KAMUGISHA

All is set for this year’s Annual Media Convention (AMC) scheduled for Thursday 31st and Friday 1st  November at Fairway Hotel in Kampala. 
The two-day event will bring together journalists and media practitioners, public communication experts, policy makers and government officials, academicians, civil society and development partners, as well as Journalism and Communication students  from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Zambia and Germany. 

DJC staff in multimedia journalism training

Lecturers at the Department of Journalism and Communication, Makerere University, are undergoing a training aimed at enhancing their capacity to teach online and multimedia journalism and production.

The four-day training, conducted by Deutche Welle Akademie, aims at equipping the lecturers with skills to enable them to teach journalism in the changing new media environment. Such trainings are necessitated by the fact that journalism and communication students need to learn how to combine text, photographs, audio and video for multimedia platforms.

DJC Wins NORHED Funding

The Department of Journalism and Communication (DJC) has won NORHED funding for a project titled: Strengthening Media in Post-Conflict societies through Education and Research: Bridging Gaps, Building Futures in Uganda, Norway, South Sudan and Nepal. It is a Five year project to be implemented in partnership with Norway, Nepal and South Sudan.  The selection of the DJC proposal was as a result of a competitive process of which 173 applications were received by NORHED for funding and out of these ony 46 have been recommended for support. 

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