Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) would like to commend Daily Sun for a series of articles on children that accessed and portrayed them positively and, highlighted important issues affecting children. While doing this, MMA would also like to bring to the publication’s attention a few articles that cou...
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 ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to Sowetan for positively reporting on children, highlighting their achievements and accessing them in four articles published in the same week in October. The first article, “Alex girl dreams of producing robot cook” (23/10/2017, p.2) by Bafana Nz...
When media give children positive recognition such as in the instance of “Schoolboy who walks the walk” (The Citizen, 03/11/2017, p.5), it is worthy of a GLAD.[1] The story written by Ofentse Maphari, reports on a Grade 11 pupil, Nathi Nzima, from King Edward VII School who rescued a man who had...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to City Press for three articles which appeared in the same edition of the newspaper and portrayed children positively, by highlighting their achievements and giving them a voice. The first article, “’We are forgotten here’” (05/11/2017, p.10) b...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] this week to City Press for its 8 October, 2017 issue which not only included two stories in which the identities of children whose parents were involved in legal battles were actively protected, but also included two other stories which intentionally s...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to City Press for the publication’s in-depth analysis of the Gauteng department of education’s information and communication technology (ICT) smart schools initiative and some of the challenges facing these schools. All the articles published on 2...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to The New Age for publishing a story in which a young girl who has a promising future as an author is profiled and accessed. “Published author at 10 years old” The New Age (06/06/2017, p.2) talks about Stacey Fru, a 10-year-old who is preparing to...
The story “Female pupils excel in rugby” (13/06/2017) by African News Network 7(ANN7) has been awarded a GLAD[1] by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for portraying children in a positive manner and highlighting their achievements. The story is about a group of female pupils from Carolina in Mpumala...