31 July 2018, Mail and Guardian, Sarah Smit A complaint lodged by SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa resulted in the reviewed policies being rejected by Icasa on the basis of the SABC’s failure to ensure that public participation in the development of the polici...
25 July 2018,Business Day, Bekezela Phakati Media Monitoring Africa said it was not happy with some aspects of the draft but could not give details. Read the full article. ...
23 July 2018, Business Day, Bekezela Phakathi In the latest submission to the committee, Media Monitoring Africa said the bill had so many gaps that it fails to deal with emerging issues and is already at risk of being outdated in the digital era. Read the full article....
17 July 2018, Sunday World, Aubrey Mothombeni The SABC’s decision to hold an internal inquiry on editorial interference in-camera has been challenged in court. Nonprofit organisation Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) filed an urgent application in the South Gauteng High Court in Joburg last week M...
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In an out-of-court settlement, Media Monitoring Africa, S.O.S: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition, the SABC and the Commission of Inquiry probing allegations of editorial interference at the SABC have agreed to open some parts of the Inquiry to the public and the media. The commission is chaired ...
On Monday, 9 July 2018, Media Monitoring Africa released a report titled “Where do we belong?” which analysed how the issue of migration is framed in the media of four sub-Saharan African countries. Recognising that migration is a critical issue across the continent and that news media plays an ...
WHEN: 31 July at 18:30–20:30 WHERE: Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue – Parkwood, 2193 Johannesburg RSVP: benjamin.keuffel@goethe.de until 30 July 2018. “Fake news” and filter bubbles have become part of the standard vocabulary within the political and media dis...
24 May 2018, Kate Ferreira Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is deeply concerned with how fake news — or in its parlance, dodgy news — is assessed and shared by the public. Its new project aims to provide tools for easy assessment. Its KnowNews database is a collection of news publishers — both cr...