MEDIA COVERAGE OF COVID19; PRACRICAL TIPS
Covid19 has become the biggest media and public story of our time today, but with its uncertainties and accompanying infordermic, it has become a challenge for journalists to cover it.
Besides being an invisible story and therefore journalists not knowing what they are reporting about, covering Covid19 comes with a lot of health and safety risks for journalists.
Based on this background we have developed this
The Media Challenge Initiative( MCI) on Sunday February 16, 2020 concluded the first week of the 3rd edition of the annual Media Challenge Fellowship, an aggressive multimedia journalism training program awarded to the 26 best-performing students from 12 Universities who took part in the Inter-University Media Challenge (IUMC).
The fellowship program — conducted in partnership with Konrad Adenuer Stiftung Uganda and South Sudan, DW Akademie, The German Co
Job Title: Finance & Administration Officer
Organisation: Media Challenge Initiative (MCI)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: General Manager
About US: (Brief Background for MCI)
The Media Challenge Initiative is a youth-driven non-profit, building the next generation of journalists in Africa through training, mentorship and experiential peer-to-peer learning. MCI was founded in 2016 with a vision to train the next generati
Application for the 2019-2020 Media Challenge Fellowship Program
Guidelines
Welcome to the online application Media Challenge Fellowship Program.Media Challenge Initiative invites applications for the Media Challenge Fellowship Program from the top 5 journalism contestants from the 2019 Inter University Media Challenge Competition. The top 5 include award winners and 4 runner ups in all the categories of the IMC competition including news anchoring a
Best News Anchors
Twine Bella-Makerere University
Nelson Ruto-Makerere University
Ssebandeke Joseph – Makerere Business Institute
Juma Losanday-UMCAT
Nazziwa Shadia-IUIU
Best Live Reporters
Namazzi Victoria-UMCAT
Tamale Michael -Kampala University
Asaba Derrick-Kampala University
Tamale Micheal
Tunga Felix
Best Climate Change Impact
Kiwumulo Charity-ST. Lawrence University
Laker Fiona-MAKERERE University
Birung
Here are the Winners from the 2019 Media Challenge Awards
Students Awards
Best News Anchor
1.Twine Bella-Makerere University-Winner
2.Nelson Ruto-Makerere University
3.Sebandeke Joseph – Makerere Business Institute
Best Live Reporter
1.Namazzi Victoria-UMCAT-Winner
2.Tamale Michael -Kampala University
3.Asaba Derrick-Kampala University
Best Climate Change Impact
1.Kiwumulo Charity-ST. Lawrence University-Winner
2.Laker Fiona-MAKERERE University
Media Challenge Initiative in partnership with the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) is set out to train 500 young journalists in effective reporting on climate change in the 2019 Climate Change Media Challenge running from the 1st – 3rd November 2019.
The Media Challenge Expo is a three-day festival under the theme ‘Reporting on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction in Uganda’ and will bring together the media fraternity for conference sessions on i
Every year our challenge become more and more interesting for the students that engage in it.
Hearing from participants from the Makerere Business School, the focus of the Media Challenge and the key issues the challenge addresses every year has become an essential part of the organizers' vision of “building the next generation of Journalists.” The Media Challenge offers media students the opportunity to showcase their skills at the same time learning
Job Title: Finance & Administration Officer
Organisation: Media Challenge Initiative (MCI)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: General Manager
About US: (Brief Background for MCI)
The Media Challenge Initiative is a youth-driven non-profit, building the next generation of journalists in Africa through training, mentorship and experiential peer-to-peer learning. MCI was founded in 2016 with a vision to train the next generation of jour
