City Press puts interest of child first. One of the basic tenets of ethical journalism is to always consider the best interest of children or a child when reporting on a story that involves them. It is for this commendable journalistic practice that week, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is delighted t...
Media celebrates children’s achievements. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to two publications namely City Press and The Star for positively reporting on children’s achievements and accessing them in the articles. The journalists, Zelda Venter and Janice Phiri are also commended fo...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards City Press a GLAD[1] for reporting an issue facing many children and potentially bringing it to the attention of policy makers. The article selected as a GLAD is titled, “Child-headed household crisis in South Africa” and was written by Yoliswa Sobuwa on 17 J...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to City Press for publishing a letter written by learners to MEC of Education in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) thereby shining a light on a group of children who decided to hold the powerful to account. The letter with the title, “We are tired of walking” (2...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is pleased to award the City Press newspaper a GLAD[1] for publishing a story that highlights a children-related issue and further accesses a child for their opinions on the matter. The story, “Painful to be a pupil” (01/09/2019, p.6), written by Lubabalo Ngcukana, ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to City Press for its article titled, “Still learning amid the mud” (14/07/19, p.6) which accessed a child in a matter that affects them. The article written by Lubabalo Ngcukana, is about a primary school in Eastern Cape with poor facilities and in...
City Press recently made Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) GLAD[1] of the article, “No toilets and no support from the state” (05/05/2019, p.6) in which a child was accessed and positively portrayed. The article takes readers to a school in the Eastern Cape that is reported to not have operational t...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to City Press for its article titled, “’Sorry, I couldn’t save them’” (23/09/2018, p.6) in which a child who experienced a traumatic ordeal was interviewed and identified when he is a potential witness at criminal proceedings. The story is about...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is thrilled to award a GLAD[1] to City Press for the publication’s 21 January issue that consisted of a full two-page spread of stories with a focus on critical child-related issues and which accessed children’s voices on these. There are four stories in particular ...