Excellence Center
About Ethiopian Media Center of Excellence
The Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA has established Ethiopian Media Center of Excellence (EMCoE).This is in response its mandate to perform capacity building activities and enhance the competency of journalists and media leadership. EMCoE aspires to be inclusive, impactful, sustainable and resourceful national center for media development in Ethiopia.
Our Dual Mission
Advance Professionalism
The Center works to advance media professionalism through knowledge-rooted and evidence-based capacity-building initiatives that promote freedom of expression, democracy, and media independence.
Transform Media Landscape
The Center is committed to transforming the Ethiopian media landscape (and the African media landscape in the long run), ensuring it is responsive to national and continental interests.
Our Approach and Programs
EMCE takes inclusive, practical and high tech approach to its services. Currently, It admits delegates, with minimum od university degree, for professional certificate programs in journalism specialty such as election journalism, financial journalism, health journalism, etc.
With diverse modalities and state-of-the-art facilities, it attempts to fill the gap between theoretical university journalism education and practical skills required by journalists to practice the profession in Ethiopian context. The Center partners with media houses (private and public), journalism associations, industry experts and technology companies. It also partners with autonomous local and African universities for quality training and high standard certification.