“It is a crisis, it just wasn’t a crisis according to how we as journalists expected it to be. It’s an indictment, it’s a problem with journalists that we follow the pack, and we follow certain stories that are in the news and when it’s out of the news it dies.” – Khadija [...
The absence of children in SA’s press code, the lack of children’s voices in reporting and a poor showing of children in positive roles in media – these were the issues child media monitors put to senior journalists and editors on the Redi Tlhabi show. Listen to the show’s po...
For five weeks South Africa lost itself in football fever, hosting what many have claimed was the best World Cup ever. But as the warm glow of the World Cup fades, we looked at what the host country did to ensure this momentous event was not held at the expense of its most vulnerable citizens [&hell...
WORLD AIDS DAY : DOES THE MEDIA HAVE REASON TO CELEBRATE? Tune in to MEDIA @ SAfm this Sunday from 10am as we showcase exclusive audio from educational radio projects in Africa and assess the media’s coverage of HIV/ AIDS in 2007. We’ll also hear a panel of local and international experts sugges...
The Media Monitoring Project in association with the Open Society Foundation and SAfm presents a radio conference on a way forward for the SABC. Tune in to MEDIA @ SAfm this Sunday as civil society puts PUBLIC and SERVICE back into Public Service Broadcaster. Our local and international experts will...
The Media Monitoring Project in association with the Open Society Foundation and SAfm present QUANTITY ABOUNDS – BUT IS IT QUALITY? AND HOW DID IT GET THERE? How much do you know about the complicated processes behind the compiling of a news story? The choice of a particular picture, the layou...
“The media don’t tell us what to think, but they do tell us what to think about!” Tune in to MEDIA @ SAfm this Sunday at 10am for a radio conference “MEDIA BUILDING AN OPEN SOCIETY” Media should inform and educate but also expose its audiences to new ideas. But is your world view being [&h...
The Media Monitoring Project and Open Society Foundation in conjunction with SAfm present… UNPACKING THE NEW ANC MEDIA POLICY “… what masquerades as ‘public opinion’, as reflected in the bulk of our media, is in fact minority opinion informed by the historic social and political positi...
IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS! Join the Media Monitoring Project, in conjunction with Open Society Foundation and SAfm for an interrogation of violence and abuse in the media… Has violence become the lowest common denominator of mainstream media? Listen to this prorgamme as our panel of local and internat...