Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) conducted a media monitoring and analysis of the coverage of Gender-Based Violence in South African media. From the five year monitoring period (2015 to 2020) over 30 000 stories about or relating to Gender-Based Violence were collected. To streamline the analysis,...
In order to determine trends in coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of sources in South African media, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is running a series of analyses where findings are compared against each other to show improvement, or the lack thereof. The previous four analyses published ha...
Media Monitoring Africa, a leading media research organisation in Africa today launched the first report on coverage of the 2019 national elections in South Africa. Read the report. We are officially in elections season! With less than one month to go until South Africans hit the polls, we ask the q...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) condemns the ‘doxing’ of Radio 702 and ENCA Talk Show Host and journalist Karima Brown as well as the threats and abuse that followed. Doxing is the act of revealing identifying information about someone online — their real name, address, workplace, phone number, ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), a leading human rights media research organisation, today released their report “Politics, medicine and disease: The story of HIV in the media from 2002”. The research examines how the coverage of HIV/AIDS has changed since 2003. Read the report. More than 7 mill...
18 August 2018, Grocotts Mail, Kathryn Clearly According to research by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), out of all stories analysed in South African media in 2017, only 6% were about gender-based violence. The Herald had the most reporting on the topic in the country, more so than Huffington Pos...
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...