Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) commends Daily Sun, Pretoria News and Cape Argus for ethically reporting on stories that involve minors. These media are awarded a GLAD[1] for respecting the children’s rights to privacy by protecting the identities of the children involved in their stories. The stori...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is pleased to award Pretoria News and Weekend Argus a GLAD[1] for articles which involve minors that are not identified or interviewed. The stories are titled, “Soshanguve learner attempts suicide over teacher ‘bullying’ incident.” (Pretoria News...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is happy to award a GLAD[1] to Daily Sun and News24 for their respective stories, “Couple in court for child neglect and rape” and “Bail for mother, 30, charged with her boyfriend, 91, in child neglect and rape case by Getrude Makhafola ” Both stories were publi...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is proud to award News24 and IOL a GLAD[1] for reporting ethically on children by withholding their identities in stories on abuse. The stories for which the two media are being awarded a GLAD are titled, “Principal suspended for forcing pupil into pit toilet to searc...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) commends Daily Sun for brilliantly and ethically reporting on two stories that involve minors. The stories titled, “Girl raped after school” (26/02/2021) and “Rescued-from-sex-a-shack” (01/03/2021) are awarded a GLAD[1] for protecting the identiti...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is delighted to award a GLAD[i] to Sowetan LIVE for the article, “Stepfather gets five life sentences for raping girl repeatedly since she was four” (29 May 2019) in which the journalist correctly concealed the identities of the children who are victims of abuse. Th...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) congratulates Timeslive on its story entitled, “Mother, 23, jailed after leaving toddler alone during a tavern spree” (11/10/2018) by Nonkululeko Njilo in which the children involved were protected from further potential harm. The story, which MMA selected as a GLAD...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to The Post for not identifying two children who are witnesses and victims in a case of abuse. The story, “Murder accused mom ‘did not like child’”, published via IOL (26/08/2018) describes the case of a mother and a grandmother who stand accuse...