Fredrick Mugira is a Ugandan National Geographic Storytelling Explorer; Pulitzer Center Grantee and a multiple award-winning water and climate change journalist; media trainer, and development communication specialist. He has reported from various countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, and USA and led media training in environmental reporting, climate change reporting, and other topics across East Africa and the Nile Basin. He founded and heads Water Journalists Africa a network of over 700 water journalists in Africa. He cofounded InfoNile, a geojournalism platform mapping data on water issues in the Nile River basin.
Fredrick has won various continental and national journalism awards including: the prestigious CNN/Multichoice African Journalist award; the UN Development Journalism Award; the highly competitive 2018 and 2015 Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) for international Journalists. Swamp City, a multimedia project that he authored with an American journalist, exploring how urbanization has destroyed a major Kampala wetland, won the 2018 Uganda Water, Sanitation and Hygiene media awards overall prize. ‘Sucked Dry: Land Grabs and Water Access in the Nile River Basin’, a Pulitzer Center-funded data journalism grant project he led has so far won three major international awards. Another collaborative journalism project he led that, titled ‘Thirsty in a river basin’ http://maps.infonile.org/covid-water-scarcity/ funded by National Geographic Society and Pulitzer Center, was recently published. He was shortlisted for the Energy/Water journalism Lifetime Achievement award at the Africa Utility awards 2018. Read online or download
Fredrick has a Master’s Degree in Communication for Development from Malmo University in Sweden. He also studied a PGD in Environmental Journalism and Communication and BA in Mass Communication.
