Media Release 21 February 2022 JOHANNESBURG, 21 February 2022 – Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is pleased to launch the reports on media’s coverage of the 2021 local government elections. As with every election since the first democratic election of 1994, MMA has monitored how the South Af...
28 November 2021, Myles Illidge, MyBroadband Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird spoke to Newzroom Afrika about the allegations raised by the ANC. “If they had a legitimate concern, the easy thing to do would be to go and report that at the time of the elections,” he said. “To come...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is monitoring selected media’s coverage of the run up to the 2021 Local Government Elections (LGE) to determine what issues are considered a priority by the media, check whether political parties and/or their candidates are represented fairly and without bias and, whe...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is monitoring selected media’s coverage of the run up to the 2021 Local Government Elections (LGE) to determine what issues are considered a priority by the media, check whether political parties and/or their candidates are represented fairly and without bias and whet...
28 September 2021, News24, Juniour Khumalo The call was made by the Defend our Democracy campaign, Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, Citizens of Conscience Foundation, Media Monitoring Africa, Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) and 350Africa.org. They also urged other civil society organisations to joi...
22 September 2021, News24 Join News24’s political editor Qaanitah Hunter on Thursday at 15:30 as she unpacks the role of social media during elections. She will be joined by the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s Dr Nomsa Masuku and PD Dr Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, a Senior Postdoc Digital...
Media Release 14 September 2021 Media Coverage and Disinformation in the run up to the elections JOHANNESBURG, 14 September 2021– Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) launched their 2021 Local Government Elections Media Monitoring and Disinformation project. With the local government elections n...
9 September 2021, News24, Willaim Bird and Thandi Smith Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) approach the elections with the following three key assumptions: Firstly, anyone who can should vote. It doesn’t matter who you vote for, but it does matter that you vote. Even if you spoil your ballot because yo...
In his presentation, Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird says journalists routinely risk their lives when they gather news, and if they take all the safety precautions, and are vaccinated during the drive targetting essential services workers, they will be able to do their job. Bird says expert...