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Call for papers now open for a joint CAS/CeSeR conference in Edinburgh on April 23-24 2024. Theme is ‘Security in Africa: Actors, Logics and Futures.’ Deadline for abstracts 20 Nov. Join us to discuss research on everyday actors and the politics of violence in Africa.

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A product of an SSRC funded panel @ the 21' IPRA conference. Convening a slew of sharp witted African 'media' scholars (mostly African Peacebuilding Network & SSRC's Next Gen Africa fellows)...Admire Mare (ZIM) Dr Pamela Mainye (KEN) Emilly Comfort Maractho (UG) Dr Bernadine Jones (SA) Toyin Ajayi (NGA)

.UN Development's new Gender Social Norms Index shows that there has been no improvement in biases against women in a decade.

Almost 9 out of 10 men and women worldwide still hold biases against women.

#CheckYourBias now: go.undp.org/GSNI2023

📣 Calling all Ugandan journalists and media organisations! 📻🖊️🎙️📰

The stage is set for the Uganda National Journalism Awards. 🏆🇺🇬 Submit your best work and editorial innovations of 2022. #UNJA2023 #ACMEAwards

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Withdrawal of computer misuse Bill long overdue

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More women in newsroom management makes a difference for women as newsmakers.

Emilly Comfort Maractho writes: bit.ly/3dvx0zN
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7. Emilly Comfort Maractho How kind! I want you to know that these words you wrote about me, mean the world to me. Thank you for recognizing my small building blocks. Of course, I have not arrived yet. I acknowledge that I am still a work in progress. But with mentorship, I will get there.

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So, I read Emily's column. I never imagined that my name would be mentioned anywhere. Guess what! I landed on my name 😘😘😘😘😘. Emily (sorry, I did not use the Dr title) said so many things that complimented my work. I will share the column at the end of this tweet.

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It is one thing to have a story and quite another to make it make sense to the reader. Some gallant men and women leave the newsroom at midnight to have this job done. And I feel this category is never appreciated. They never win awards. They have no bylines. Back-end work.

4. Truth is, there is too much back-end work that goes into stories before they are published. Think about story idea generation, choosing a story angle, execution, editing, proofreading, page layout, designing et al, which all require critical thinking skills.

3. See, people (except those that have worked in a typical newsroom) assume that working with a newspaper company is all about bylines. So, if your name doesn't appear in the daily, you come off as a masquerader and it is easy for people to discredit your work and contribution.

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After reading the tweet, I switched off the TV just so I could focus on reading Emilly Comfort Maractho's column. I am afraid I won't repeat the words she mentioned. But one thing stood out for me. Emily recognized the work women do in the newsroom. She gave Carol Alyek Beyanga and I some flowers.

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After a long day, yesterday, I turned to Twitter. I landed on a tweet, in which Claire Muhindo had tagged me. She was thanking Emilly Comfort Maractho for giving flowers to some women in newsroom. Her tweet was accompanied by a screenshot of a column that Emily had written.
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Women empowerment is so near and dear to our hearts, we truly love being part of the empowerment, like minded community of women who life each other up and support each other through
Uganda Media Women's Association Emilly Comfort Maractho Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development Margaret B Sentamu Patricia K. Litho (PhD) UN Women Uganda Sarah Kizza Nsigaye @ Maskini Jewuri

𝕮𝔩𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔐𝔲𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔬 Emilly Comfort Maractho Carol Alyek Beyanga Nayebare Harriet Flora Aduk Peninah A Grace Kenganzi JJ Rukundo Emily’s heart shouldn’t break when women leave newsrooms. It’s a good thing bse we need to grow beyond certain confines & create room for others to lead.

At some point it becomes a dead end professionally & it’s pointless to hang around. Best wishes to those still carrying on.

Thank you Dr Emilly Comfort Maractho for this piece about the women in the #MonitorAt30 story.

Cheers to Carol Alyek Beyanga Nayebare Harriet Margaret Vuchiri Flora Aduk Peninah A Grace Kenganzi JJ Rukundo and all the women who have worked hard to make the Monitor story richer

Cheers to you too, 𝕮𝔩𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔐𝔲𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔬 and thank you too! Honoured to have sat in the same editorial meetings with these phenomenal women.
This is a beautiful read Emilly Comfort Maractho

It’s been a constructive debate! Thank you all who joined this space! Let’s continue this conversation via #ACMETalks
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