Fredrick Mugira
Credentials: Fall 2020
Summary of Madison Activities
In a conversation moderated by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Lindsay Palmer, Pulitzer Center grantees Fredrick Mugira and Ejiro Umukoro discussed their experiences covering two crises in Africa—water access in the Nile Basin and gender-based violence in Nigeria, respectively—in the midst of another crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar, entitled “Reporting on a Crisis: COVID-19 Journalism in Africa,” was a collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, one of the Center’s Campus Consortium partners, and part of Africa at Noon, an ongoing series by the university’s African Studies Program.
Fredrick’s Biography
Fredrick Mugira is a Ugandan multiple award-winning water and climate change journalist, media trainer and development communication specialist with over 10 years of wide-ranging experience.
He has reported from various countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and USA. Fredrick has won various continental and national journalism awards including: the prestigious CNN/Multichoice African Journalist award; the UN Development Journalism Award; the 2018 and 2015 Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) fellowships. He was also shortlisted for the Energy/Water journalism Lifetime Achievement award at the Africa Utility awards 2018.
He heads Water Journalists Africa, a network of over 700 journalists in 50 African countries who report on water. He cofounded InfoNile, a geojournalism platform mapping data on water issues in the Nile River basin with journalism stories to promote transboundary peace. Fredrick has a Master’s Degree in Communication for Development, a PGD in Environmental Journalism and Communication and BA Mass Communication. He currently works as an Editor with Uganda’s leading multimedia house—Vision Group.