Media Monitoring Africa’s latest research into South African and Zambian media shows that coverage of children in the news has increased over the years. However, there are still on-going challenges in terms of how children are covered. For example, the media in both countries still do not give chi...
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....
MMA has released two of its latest reports on the coverage of children in South African and Zambian media. “Reporting on Children: Is the coverage getting any better?” looks at the portrayal of children in South African media from January to October 2011 and “Something to be glad about? Covera...
MMA’s Make Abuse Disappear Online Accountability Tool (MAD OAT), is part of a larger strategy, the Empowering Children and the Media (ECM), which aims to improve the representation and participation of children and further reduce the incidences of children’s rights violations in the media. We hi...
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Every Monday morning Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) staff meets to discuss and analyse examples of the best and worst media coverage of children. Each week we select one example of the worst reporting for a MAD, and one example of the best reporting for a GLAD. However, last week we had more than 10 ...
MMA has been monitoring and analysing print media’s performance, in terms of how it reports on children, since 2003. This is its fourth report on the topic, and since 2003 the percentage of articles featuring children has doubled. Author and MMA’s Specialised Children’s Monitoring Project Coor...
On Thursday 4th November 2010 an 8th grade girl was allegedly gang raped by three schoolboys on the high school’s premises. The incident was allegedly filmed by students using mobile phones. Numerous aspects of how this story has been reported have given Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) cause for con...
Children’s Views not in the News; Portrayal of Children in South African Print Media 2009 -2010 shows that coverage of children has increased from 6.5% in 2003 to 11.4 % in 2010. But there is still room for improvement, both in terms of the quantity and quality of reporting on children. A signific...