Media in Lesotho operate under strenuous conditions and the continual threat to free press poses serious challenges in covering crucial events like elections, particularly in ensuring that media carry the citizens agenda and ask the rights questions so that citizens become informed voters. Laws proh...
This is a significant and certainly demanding responsibility that makes it essential for the media’s coverage of elections to be explored. In light of this, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) in partnership with the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA Zambia) analysed the media coverage of the 201...
The report aims to give a brief overview of the South African media coverage thus far in the run up to the 2014 National Elections. We must emphasise that the figures are not yet final and are valid to 30 April 2014. We are monitoring a total of 50 media outlets, including print, online and [&hellip...
Media Monitoring Africa has just released the latest research report on media’s coverage of children’s rights. Titled, “Promoting Children’s Rights: Coverage of Children in South African and Zambian Media”, the report looked at media’s coverage of children’s rights in South and Zambia....
The 2011 Municipal elections were dominated by coverage surrounding a crucial issue of service delivery, in particular, provision of sewerage and sanitation. Unfortunately the discussions were dominated not by the citizens affected and policy issues of parties involved but rather the politicians. Th...
The Protection of State Information Bill will be passed by the National Assembly today. It will then be referred to the National Council of Provinces for further consideration. Other constitutional processes lie in its likely future. With this in mind, the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory has c...
In response to concerns raised of bias by one the SOS Coalition (Support Public Broadcasting) members, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has conducted a brief analysis of SABC 2’s Morning Live show (11 May 2011). MMA found that this Morning Live show (11 May 2011) is one programme that exhibited bias,...
During election time, the media has a pivotal role to play in communicating information to voters and facilitating their making of informed decisions on Election Day. For this reason Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has been monitoring coverage, gathering data and providing analysis since the first Sou...
Election coverage for Wednesday 8 April continued to be about the NPA’s announcement on the dropping of charges against Jacob Zuma, the reaction from other political parties, and what it means for the country. A substantial amount of the news in the newspapers was devoted to this. This was les...