Media Release 29 March 2022 JOHANNESBURG, 29 March 2022 – Since 2003, MMA has been monitoring the coverage of children in the media to check adherence to ethical and legal frameworks on reporting on children. Further, the monitoring has been to ascertain trends in coverage with particular f...
In July, South Africa witnessed considerable news coverage of issues relating to the public unrest that some members of the public felt was brought on by the arrest of former President, Jacob Zuma. Other sectors still feel that the unrest which led to property destruction and mass looting of busines...
News media can play a crucial role in bringing awareness around different issues and how they affect various groups in a society. Furthermore, journalists have the capacity to shape how these issues are understood by their audiences through their reporting. The challenge is existing in a vast world,...
This report provides a holistic analysis of children’s coverage in the media. Aspects such as where the stories came from; what they were about; how children were accessed; how they were portrayed; whether their rights were respected and whether the information provided in the stories was informat...
In Namibia, media reporting on children’s issues remains a challenge. However, this is not exclusive to the Namibian media industry as reports suggest that other Southern African countries also face the same challenges. Download the full report here....
Children were seldom accessed even in stories about them and were portrayed in roles that masked their capabilities and stripped them of their individual identity and in many cases left them devoid of any character or agency. In some cases children’s rights were violated and the information provid...
Considering that Child Protection Week provides ample opportunities for the media to report on issues affecting children, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) assessed media’s performance in highlighting the challenges that compromise the safety and well-being of children. The findings show that there wa...
Media Monitoring Africa’s children’s programme aims to improve the portrayal and active participation of children in the news. In striving to attain this goal, MMA has done a lot of work around children’s rights and the media. For a sneak preview of MMA’s work in the past three years, check ...
The beginning of the year is the start of great things, chiefly amongst these is the first day of the school year where children retire from their summer holidays and start school. Among these children are the Grade Ones, who have always garnered media’s attention and made front pages of most news...