Accessing children, ventilating their views on matters that involve them and protecting their identities when necessary are some of the most important journalistic ethics that which journalists ought to abide by. This is to ensure that children participate in issues and decisions affecting them and ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives Daily Sun a MAD[1] for an article where a child is interviewed, an action potentially subjecting the child to further trauma. The article titled, “Baby daddy bust for alleged murder” (Daily Sun, 12/02/2022) reports ...
The media has a responsibility to protect children in their coverage of the children especially when there is a potential for harm. Unfortunately, a child who was sexually abused was potentially subjected to harm because she was made to relive her traumatic experience through an interview. It is for...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives DispatchLIVE a MAD[1] for an article indirectly identifying children who witnessed the killing of their father and grandfather in a horrific manner. The MAD is given because such identification endangers the safety of the children involved. The article titled...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives both DispatchLive and Weekend Argus a MAD[1] for their articles that directly and indirectly identify child victims thereby subjecting them to secondary trauma and other harm. The article by DispatchLive titled, “Mom of Tsomo miracle baby now charged with attemp...
The article, “Boy,11,shot cousin,7,won’t be charged” (Daily dispatch, 04/10/2021, p.2) has been selected as a MAD[1] by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for falling short of the ethical and legal principles of reporting on children. The story indirectly identifies the...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives The Witness a MAD[1] for publishing an image of a two-year-old boy showing him tied by the neck to a pallet reportedly by his grandmother. The publishing of this image grossly violates the child’s right to dignity due to its humiliating and degrading nature. It ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is appalled by an article published by Daily Dispatch and as a result the publication receives a MAD[1] for reporting a story relating to a child victim who is indirectly identified. Daily Dispatch also receives the MAD for interviewing a potentially traumatised child w...
The Sowetan newspaper is given a MAD[1] by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for a series of four articles the publication wrote on child rape and teenage pregnancy in and around the Gauteng province. The MAD is given to the Sowetan because the publication accessed the children, an action potentially re...