Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is deeply distressed by reports this week that Sentech has switched off the signal of at least 2 community radio stations and has initiated the phased switch-off process for a further 15 other community broadcasters because their payment was in arrears. Sentech is the s...
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Are the media helping us escape our echo chambers? Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) and the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) invite you to celebrate World Press Freedom Day with us in Johannesburg. As we celebrate World Press Freedom Day th...
Pretoria News, 27 March 2018 Politics lecturer at the University of Pretoria, Sithembile Mbethe, has questioned why stories written by female journalists tended to feature more voices of men, while they overlooked the contributions from women. She spoke at an event in Hatfield, where the GCIS hosted...
For immediate release Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) strongly condemns recent attacks on media by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). MMA welcomes and endorses the statement by the South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) on the attack of Netwerk24 photographer, Adriaan de Kock, by EFF’s Floyd...
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March 15, 2018, The Media Online Did the Sunday Times cross an editorial line? “Short answer, yes they did,” says William Bird, director of Media Monitoring Africa (left). “Even though it seems relatively harmless in that it is just a red underline, and even though the campaign may be well int...
MMA examines 3 years of the coverage of Zuma across local South African online media. We focused on the following: A timeline of stories from 1 Jan 2015 – 1 March 2018 Which media gave Jacob Zuma the loudest voice? Who was most sourced when covering Jacob Zuma? Take a look at the presentation ...
The department of telecommunications & postal services will this week hold a two-day consultation workshop on the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, with a planned wholesale open-access network (Woan) and spectrum allocation likely to lead to a spirited discussion… Those presenting ...