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AI Adoption in the Global South
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 14 pp.
"This paper helps readers distinguish genuine institutional AI adoption from unstructured tool use. It connects evidence about barriers in Global South newsrooms and journalism schools with an East African implementation pathway. Readers will find the discussion useful when planning training, govern
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AI and Digital Journalism Education
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 29 pp.
"This paper addresses how journalism schools can respond when students use AI faster than educators and curricula adapt. It considers emerging curriculum models, assessment and academic integrity, then presents a worked course framework grounded in African realities. The discussion gives educators a
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Safety, Surveillance and the Protection of Journalists
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines how surveillance technologies and AI-enabled abuse change the risks faced by journalists, especially women journalists and those working in high-threat environments. It outlines digital security and source-protection practices, then frames safety as a responsibility shared by in
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AI, Data Journalism and Investigative Reporting in Africa
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 32 pp.
"This paper maps the data-investigation pipeline and identifies where AI can assist African investigative journalists. It surveys relevant organisations and examples while addressing barriers involving data access, skills, resources and data protection. The report stresses that source development, v
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Journalism Education in Africa and the Global South
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper places journalism education in Africa and the Global South within its historical and institutional context. It discusses colonial legacies and curriculum debates alongside resource limitations, the theory-practice gap and threats to press freedom. The report also considers continental st
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Hate Speech, Extremism and Propaganda
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 29 pp.
"This paper traces how hateful rhetoric can escalate into dehumanisation and violence, while examining AI’s role in producing and distributing propaganda. It also considers automated detection and why technical classification alone cannot resolve the tension between countering hate and protecting
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AI in the Newsroom: Practices and Case Studies
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 16 pp.
"This paper examines how AI is being used across newsroom work rather than treating adoption as a single decision. It maps applications along the news value chain, compares institutional approaches and draws lessons from international and African examples. Readers can use the cases to assess the gap
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Training the Trainers: Educator Capacity Building for the AI Era
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 16 pp.
"This paper argues that educator development can extend AI competence across a media system more effectively than isolated individual training. It describes a training-of-trainers model, participatory learning principles and a Head-Hand-Heart structure for designing lessons. The discussion also addr
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Detecting and Countering AI-Enabled Disinformation
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 18 pp.
"This paper follows AI-enabled disinformation from production through distribution and monetisation. It considers what detection tools can and cannot establish and places verification within the wider work of journalism and public communication. The practical value lies in helping readers recognise
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AI Ethics, Bias & Governance in Media
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 22 pp.
"This paper moves from ethical principles to workable governance for newsrooms and journalism schools. It explains how bias can enter AI systems and travel through the news pipeline, then considers the limits of importing frameworks developed elsewhere. Its Ubuntu-grounded approach offers a locally
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Curricula and Curriculum Development for AI Journalism
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper focuses on how journalism programmes can translate AI-related needs into a coherent curriculum. It considers competency development, course structure and the conditions educators need to teach responsibly in changing media environments. Its African focus supports adaptation to local news
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Generative AI in Journalism
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines how journalists can create with generative AI across text, image, audio and video. It explains practical capabilities alongside limits and considers disclosure, verification and editorial responsibility. The report gives newsrooms a basis for deciding when synthetic content is a
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Information Literacy: Countering Disinformation
Uganda: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper presents media and information literacy as a public defence against disinformation. It discusses the African literacy gap, the science of prebunking and inoculation, and practical functions for identifying, debunking and countering falsehoods without amplifying them. Journalists and educ
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Climate Change and Environmental Journalism in Africa
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 33 pp.
"This paper considers the conditions under which African journalists cover climate change and environmental issues. It connects reporting practice with the challenge of communicating complex evidence to audiences, while considering where digital and AI tools may assist. Readers can use the discussio
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AI-Powered Fact-Checking and Verification Tools
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 23 pp.
"This report focuses on the tools journalists can use to check claims and assess digital material. It treats tool outputs as evidence to be evaluated rather than final answers, and places verification within a human editorial process. Readers gain a practical frame for selecting and using AI-support
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Election Disinformation and Political Communication
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 29 pp.
"This paper examines how artificial intelligence can alter political communication and intensify election-related disinformation. It considers the actors, tactics and channels involved, then turns to the responsibilities of journalists and other institutions during electoral periods. Readers can use
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Disinformation in Migration Reporting
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper explores the production and spread of false narratives about migrants and refugees and the consequences for public understanding and safety. It places migration reporting within wider patterns of disinformation, including the use of emotionally charged claims and amplification. The discu
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