Media flout journalistic principles by identifying a child victim. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to a number of media entities for directly identifying a child who is a victim of abuse in their r...
Cape Times fails to protect children It is unfortunate that Cape Times acted negligently by indirectly identifying children involved in its article on child abuse – with one child being the victim. The article, for which Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] is titled, “Sex-trafficking au...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to Cape Times for an article titled, “Parents of bullied boy deadlocked with school over man-bun haircut” (06/05/2021) in which a child potentially had to relive a traumatic ordeal while being interviewed by a journalist. The articleis about an 11-yea...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to Cape Times for flouting the Maintenance Act by indirectly identifying the children involved in a maintenance dispute which resulted in a murder. “Unpaid maintenance allegedly drove woman to kill father of her two children” (Cape Times, 01/07/2020) ...
Cape Times and IOL journalists failed to adhere to MMA’s Editorial Guidelines and Principles for Reporting on Children in the Media[1] by not accessing the children involved in their stories. The guidelines state that “children have the right to have their views heard on matters that affect them...