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- The Children’s News Agency — Journalism now child’s play
South African Children have launched a children’s news agency ...
Entitled, Journalism now child’s play, this article was featured in The Sunday Times, page 10, on 6 March 2011.
Child journalists: Sibonginkosi Dera and Zinhle Tshabalala for Media Monitoring Africa’s The Children’s News Agency
See original article: (scanned insert included — read more)
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- Journalism now child’s play
South African schoolchildren have launched a Children’s News Agency - the first local attempt to distribute news about children, written by children.
The journalists write about the launch for the Sunday Times
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- Good news for child reporters
South African schoolchildren have launched a Children’s News Agency - the first local attempt to distribute news about children written by children.South African schoolchildren have launched a Children’s News Agency - the first local attempt to distribute news about children written by children.
The initiative is backed by the European Union, Save the Children and Media Monitoring Africa.
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- BCCSA slams SABC’s anti-M&G rant
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission has given the SABC a rather delicate slap on the wrist for being “unprofessional”, “duplicitous”, “reckless” and “deceptive”, after the SABC’s disgraceful conduct in airing Robert Gumede’s attack on the Mail & Guardian and the credibility of investigative journalist Sam Sole. Media activists and academics are less than impressed. By MANDY DE WAAL.
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- The World Cup and Trafficking – fears, hype & fatigue!
“It is a crisis, it just wasn’t a crisis according to how we as journalists expected it to be. It’s an indictment, it’s a problem with journalists that we follow the pack, and we follow certain stories that are in the news and when it’s out of the news it dies.”
- Khadija Magardi, Senior Journalist“Do I think we acted responsibly? Absolutely. Do I think the NGOs acted responsibly? No. I think there was a lot of fear mongering before the world cup”
- Kevin Ritchie, Editor, Saturday StarThese are some of the insights uncovered by child journalists Khumo Baduza and Khotso Zhile in their documentary, for Media Monitoring Africa’s “Child Protection and Trafficking: Is the Media Telling the Right(s) Story”
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- MMA takes issue with Kuli Roberts column
Media Monitoring Africa has encouraged readers to complain to the Press Ombudsman about a controversial article written by Sunday World columnist Kuli Roberts, in which she makes numerous derogatory statements about coloured people, writes Jackie Bischof for journalism.co.za.
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- Kuli Roberts’ column scrapped after outcry
Sunday World columnist Kuli Roberts’ weekly offering was axed yesterday after an outcry followed her ‘‘racist” column about coloured people.
Her regular column, Bitch’s Brew, appeared at the weekend under the headline Jou ma se kinders (Your mother’s children).
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- EU, Save the Children plead for children’s rights respect in SA, Zambia media
The European Union (EU), Save the Children, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) , South Africa’s Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and Zambia’s Media Network on Child’s Rights and Development (MNCRD) have this week jointly launched a daring project, ‘Children and Media: Championing Best Practice’, which aims to work with 570 children and 500 journalists to ensure children’s rights are respected in the media, and a more representative and ethical journalism is practised in both countries.
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- Changing the light bulb
“Instead of working in the dark, we should change the light bulb. This project is changing the bulb”
That’s how Susanne Martin of the European Delegation described a new project launched today: Children and Media: Championing Best Practice.
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