Children have varied experiences and views from different economic and cultural backgrounds, yet media still shy away from adding the children’s voices to coverage about them. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives neither a MAD[1] nor GLAD[2] to Daily Sun for its article involving children. Besides ...
Children have rights to freedom of expression and participation in the media. These rights are enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children (ACRWC) which South Africa ratified in 1995 and 2000 respectively...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a Missed Opportunity[1] to SowetanLIVE and News24 for their articles that celebrate children’s achievements but miss the opportunity to include the children’s voices to the articles. The first story, “5 boys who rescued abandoned Labrador rewarded ...
Children should be interviewed too in media stories about them to hear their views when it is in their best interest. Failure to do so makes the media miss an opportunity to portray them as citizens who also have an opinion on issues that affect them. This failure was observed in an article by Daily...
A child’s right to freedom of expression as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)[1] and of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children (ACRWC)[2] articles 13 and 7 respectively, is one of the most important rights that should be respected and ...
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...
Every child has a voice that needs to be heard by the world. At Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), we encourage journalists to include children’s voices, more especially if they are featured in positive articles involving them or children in general. We need to allow children to express their views an...
The right for children to express themselves in media is one of the most violated, as children are rarely given opportunities to express how they feel or what they think about issues that affect them. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA)’s research has found that the media often let adults speak on behal...
News24 and The Star fall short of being awarded a GLAD[1] for missing an opportunity to include a child’s voice in their articles titled, “Nine-year-old South African mental maths whizz wows in German competition” (News24, 29/09/2018) and “SA 9-year-old has world summed up”(The star, 26/09...