Every child has a voice that needs to be heard by the world. At Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), we encourage journalists to include children’s voices, more especially if they are featured in positive articles involving them or children in general. We need to allow children to express their views an...
MMA gives a Missed Opportunity[1] to The Star for its article that celebrates a toddler for his high intelligence traits but does not access him. By not accessing the child, The Star missed an opportunity for a great story that would have been achieved by getting the child’s perspective ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives neither a MAD[1] nor a GLAD[2] to Daily Sun for its story involving a child. Despite the article reporting on a child’s outstanding achievement and opportunity, the journalist behind the story failed to give a voice to the child to tell her story. This is a miss...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a Missed Opportunity[1] to The Star for three articles that were published in the first week of April that failed to access the children at the centre of these stories. The stories focus on critical education-centred subjects. For example, “Pioneering edu...
The right for children to express themselves in media is one of the most violated, as children are rarely given opportunities to express how they feel or what they think about issues that affect them. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA)’s research has found that the media often let adults speak on behal...
News24 and The Star fall short of being awarded a GLAD[1] for missing an opportunity to include a child’s voice in their articles titled, “Nine-year-old South African mental maths whizz wows in German competition” (News24, 29/09/2018) and “SA 9-year-old has world summed up”(The star, 26/09...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives neither a MAD[1] nor a GLAD[2] to Daily Sun and The Citizen for their stories involving children where despite the articles reporting on positive and developmental things the children are involved in, the journalists failed to give a voice to these children. By no...
What a week of missed opportunities! It was an unfortunate week of missed opportunities[1] for Daily Sun, Sunday Sun and The New Age where these publications failed to access the very children at the centre of an astounding eight stories that focused on various children’s issues. To s...
A child’s right to freedom of expression as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children (UNCRC) and of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children (ACRWC)[1] articles 13 and 7 respectively, is one of the most important rights that should be respected and prom...