Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) conducted a media monitoring and analysis of the coverage of Gender-Based Violence in South African media. From the five year monitoring period (2015 to 2020) over 30 000 stories about or relating to Gender-Based Violence were collected. To streamline the analysis,...
As South Africa commemorates Women’s Day, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is pleased to announce the launch of a project on gender aimed at improving the coverage of women in South African news in terms of quantity and quality. The project, dubbed Lens on Gender, will see South African media monitor...
15 July 2020, Rosebank Killarney Gazzette, Chante’ Ho Hip While racism remains present in our reality, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) believes that the youth holds the key to its eradication and education. Together with Unicef and the Agape Youth Movement, the innovative organisation hosted a n...
Media Monitoring Africa, a leading media research organisation in Africa today launched their report on the coverage of Media reporting of the Caster Semenya vs IAAF case Read the report. The media is one of the many and most powerful and pervasive influences on how societies view gender, sex and se...
Media Monitoring Africa, a leading media research organisation in Africa today launched the first report on coverage of the 2019 national elections in South Africa. Read the report. We are officially in elections season! With less than one month to go until South Africans hit the polls, we ask the q...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), a leading human rights media research organisation, today released their report “Politics, medicine and disease: The story of HIV in the media from 2002”. The research examines how the coverage of HIV/AIDS has changed since 2003. Read the report. More than 7 mill...
The following analysis is based on data extracted from our online monitoring tool, Dexter. It covers online media in South Africa for the Period 2 January 2017 to 31 December 2017.The data is based on extracting stories that had the keywords, ‘gender based violence’, ‘sexual harass...
February 23, 2018, EWN There can be little doubt that Primedia made a big mess of how they handled the Mark Jakins sexual harassment charges and his subsequent resignation. Failing to name Mr Jakins even after he had resigned, waiting to play catch up with social media and offering limited informati...
February 16, 2018, The Daily Vox William Bird, the director of Media Monitoring Africa, referred to this decision as a “profoundly unfortunate decision” in an interview with The Daily Vox. “It means that a lot of young people are not going to be able to see it. The motivation for upgrading the...