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Safety, Surveillance and the Protection of Journalists
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines the safety of journalists in the age of artificial intelligence, and how they can be protected. It surveys the surveillance industry, from Pegasus to Predator to Graphite, and how AI has made targeting cheaper and broader; it documents the epidemic of AI-facilitated gender-based
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AI and Digital Journalism Education
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 29 pp.
"This paper examines how journalism education must change in the age of artificial intelligence. It documents the adoption gap in which students race ahead of their educators; it maps the
curriculum-reform models emerging worldwide, from the techno-humanist pyramid to formal AI-competency requireme
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AI, Data Journalism and Investigative Reporting in Africa
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 32 pp.
"This paper examines AI, data journalism and investigative reporting in Africa. It sets out the data-investigation pipeline and where AI genuinely helps; it surveys the African data-journalism
ecosystem, from Code for Africa to GIJN to InfoNile; it documents real investigations, from East African p
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AI Ethics, Bias & Governance in Media
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 22 pp.
"This paper sets out how newsrooms and journalism schools can use artificial intelligence ethically: how bias enters AI systems and compounds through the news pipeline, why the
dominant ethics frameworks are largely Western and what an African, Ubuntu-grounded alternative offers, and how a newsroom
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AI in the Newsroom: Practices and Case Studies
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 16 pp.
"This paper is a grounded account of how AI is really used in newsrooms today, not how it is imagined. It maps AI across the five stages of the news value chain; it documents the adoption paradox in which usage races ahead of strategy and confidence; it compares three institutional paths (Reuters, t
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AI-Powered Fact-Checking and Verification Tools
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 23 pp.
"This paper is a practical and critical guide to AI-powered fact-checking and verification tools. It explains how automated fact-checking works as a pipeline; it maps the four families of tools a journalist can use; it assesses their real accuracy and their limits honestly, including the striking fi
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Climate Change and Environmental Journalism in Africa
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 33 pp.
"This paper examines climate change and environmental journalism in Africa in the age of artificial intelligence. It surveys the state of the field, chronically underfunded, under-trained and under threat; it traces the evolution of climate disinformation from outright denial through delay to the
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Detecting and Countering AI-Enabled Disinformation
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 18 pp.
"This paper is a practical handbook for detecting and countering AI-enabled disinformation. Itexplains how synthetic media, deepfakes, cloned voices, generated images and persuasive fake text, is produced, amplified and monetised; it presents a four-layer verification stack and the SIFT method for a
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Disinformation in Migration Reporting
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines disinformation in migration reporting: how false and misleading narratives about migrants and refugees are constructed, spread and weaponised, and how journalists can
report migration truthfully. It sets out the three master narratives, health, economic and security threat, on
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Election Disinformation and Political Communication
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 29 pp.
"This paper examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping election disinformation and political communication, and how democracies, especially in East Africa, can respond. It sets out the five
harms AI disinformation inflicts on an election; it delivers an honest reality check on the 2024 “fi
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Hate Speech, Extremism and Propaganda
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 29 pp.
"This paper examines hate speech, extremism and propaganda in the age of AI, and what
journalism owes a society they endanger. It traces the escalation from stereotyping through
dehumanisation to incitement and atrocity; it confronts the gravest African precedents,
Rwanda’s “Radio Machete”
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Information Literacy: Countering Disinformation
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines information literacy as the public-facing defence against disinformation. Itbsets out media and information literacy (MIL) as the recognised first line of defence; it
documents the severe African MIL gap and the emerging Africa MIL Policy Framework; it presents the science of p
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Journalism Education in Africa and the Global South
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines journalism education across Africa and the Global South: where it stands, what constrains it, and how it can flourish. It traces the colonial inheritance and the debate over
decolonising and Africanising the curriculum; it confronts the theory-practice gap, the resource scarcit
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Training the Trainers: Educator Capacity Building for the AI Era
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 16 pp.
"This paper makes the case that building educator capacity is the highest-return investment a media system can make in the AI era, and shows how to do it. It sets out the multiplier logic of the
training of trainers, the participatory and constructivist pedagogy that makes such training stick, the
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AI Adoption in the Global South
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 14 pp.
"This paper examines how artificial intelligence is being adopted, and resisted, in the newsrooms and journalism schools of the Global South, with a close focus on East Africa." (About this paper, page 2)
