23 October 2024, George Claassen, News24 Media Monitoring Africa also gave evidence as amicus curae for News24 and Maughan in the complaint hearings in August. Read full article...
22 October 2024, Asanda Matlhare, Rosebank Killarney Gazette To demonstrate how tricky it is to define hate speech, Media Monitoring Africa hosted its Media Freedom Festival Day 2 third topic: Exploring the legal boundaries of freedom of expression: Rate the hate challenge, in a game show fashion on...
22 October 2024, Sipho Tshabalala, The controversy started with an opinion piece written by Edmond Phiri titled “Is Karyn Maughan South Africa’s Leni Riefenstahl – the Nazi Film Propagandist?”. It drew the ire of Karyn Maughan, News24, and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), all of whom lodged co...
11 August 2024, Glenda Daniels, Daily Maverick To be honest, I can’t stand writing about justice for women, equality for women, safety for women, more voice for women. Why? Because these should be normalised by now; we shouldn’t have to be shouty about this in the year 2024. Only 18% of voices d...
14 July 2024, City Press, Sipho Mabena The submissions and demands by six article 12 Policy Working Group ambassadors, or Web Rangers, aged between 13 and 17, were made both on- and offline on behalf of South African children to improve their lives. These ambassadors are trained in digital literacy ...
13 July 2024, SABC News Media Monitoring Africa has expressed disappointment that the media did not offer more analysis on issues of concern to the public in the May elections. This is contained in the NGO’s Media Performance Review of the 2024 General Elections which it launched in Rosebank J...
10 July 2024, William Bird, Daily Maverick We are behind almost everyone in the world in switching from analogue to digital. Our performance here is only slightly worse than our efforts to ensure universal access to cheap, fast, reliable internet. Our news media sector is facing the most extraordina...
28 June 2024, Nkosinathi Ndlovu, Tech Central Media watchdogs Support Public Broadcasting (SOS) Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) have told communications regulator Icasa to act in the public interest in digital broadcasting migration to avoid marginalising millions of poor South Afri...
27 June 2024, ENCA JOHANNESBURG – A long legal saga that was seen as a global test of the rights of journalism is finally over. The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has pleaded guilty to one charge of espionage and has been set free. READ: WikiLeaks founder Assange leaves Britain aft...