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...
In July, South Africa witnessed considerable news coverage of issues relating to the public unrest that some members of the public felt was brought on by the arrest of former President, Jacob Zuma. Other sectors still feel that the unrest which led to property destruction and mass looting of busines...
Since March 2020, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has been monitoring the media and analysing how they have been reporting Covid-19, a pandemic that has dominated media coverage, since the first case was reported in South Africa in March 2020. The purpose of the monitoring has been to determine the tr...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is launching the sixth brief in the series, ‘Analysis of Covid-19 Media Coverage’. These analyses are published consistently with the first brief having been published on 8 May, 2020. MMA has been monitoring and analysing the media coverage of the Covid-19 in Sout...
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...
From the 15th of June to the 15th of July, 2020, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) looked at who got the largest voice share in the media coverage. This was on general coverage and not topic specific. Media Mic, a tool by MMA was used to collect this data. The tool collects sources and their races, [&...
In order to determine the trends in coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of sources in South African media, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is conducting bi-monthly monitoring and analysis activities. This is a series of reports and findings are compared against each other to show improvement, o...