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Quality media opens windows

Quality is a difficult concept to operationalise across the broad spectrum of media. This newsletter presents different pieces which grapple with the concept as can be practiced.

Read more | Posted: 9 April 2008 | Newsletter | Categories:

Women’s Day early results and gender monitoring

Women’s Month, last month saw a large amount of media coverage of women. The MMP is using our own Monitoring Made Easy software to analyse the media stories. Until we have all the results, we’ve looked at the period immediately surrounding Women’s Day. We also look at whether radio is doing all it can to improve women’s lives in August’s radio conference.

Read more | Posted: 25 September 2007 | Newsletter | Categories:

Celebrating youth

June is the month for cold, youth and refugees. This is what we cover in this newsletter (except the cold). Are you aware that South Africa was the main destination, worldwide, for new asylum-seekers in 2006? The most vulnerable groups within refugee communities being women and children. Poor media coverage can worsen their plight considerably. This month we have a few resources for youth and a commentary piece about refugee coverage around World Refugee Day.

Read more | Posted: 27 July 2007 | Newsletter | Categories:

Making Women’s Day work for women

Currently, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) is supporting media freedom and best practice, in two different ways. One is through using media monitoring and feedback to media and the other is to ensure codes of conduct reflect human rights ideas. This newsletter reflects MMP’s challenge to media to make women’s day work for women and our submission to the ICASA code of conduct for broadcasters.

Read more | Posted: 24 July 2007 | Newsletter | Categories:

Making women’s day work for women: 2007 Media Challenge

Following the highly successful challenge issued by the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) to the South African media in the previous years for the coverage of National Women’s Day, the MMP has decided to re-issue the challenge to the media this year: to mainstream women on National Women’s Day. Instead of the media merely concentrating on so called “women’s issues” and only on the celebrations that are set to take place on the 9th of August, the MMP challenges the media to fill their papers, radio broadcasts, television schedules and news programmes with women.

Read more | Posted: 23 July 2007 | Media Release | Categories: Gender, Media Freedom and Performance

Reporting Children in the Media

The MMP and Wits are running a course for again in 2008 on children and the media.  Previously, MMP partnered the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism to conduct the course.  Read how it went.

With each child’s voice that is heard in the media, there is a strong possibility that not only that child will become a reader or viewer, but also that that child’s parents, caregivers, friends and relations will also become readers or viewers.

Read more | Posted: 19 June 2007 | Media Release | Categories: Children

Complaint against Daily Voice resolved

The Media Monitoring Project filed a complaint against the Daily Voice about the coverage of children in a child pornography feature.  We also highlighted this case of bad coverage and launched a petition against it.  The Daily Voice approached MMP for a settlement to the complaint.  The settlement compels the Daily Voice to:

• Ensure that the children get counseling,
• Submit its protocol on publication relating to children to the MMP and to Child Line for contributions,
• Participate in the course for journalists, “Reporting Children in the Media” presented by MMP at Wits University.

The agreement is presented here as it was sent to the Press Ombudsman.

Read more | Posted: 7 May 2007 | Media Release | Categories: Gender, Children, Media Freedom and Performance

Media’s human right’s obligations

It may be fair to assume that the relationship between media and human rights is that media reports on human rights issues. But this is only half the picture. Media also has a role in upholding human rights issues in their reporting. This obligation is two-fold, in that the audience should be educated about their rights and human rights issues in general, but in doing so, media also should also be careful not to violate human rights when covering vulnerable groups.

Read more | Posted: 4 May 2007 | Newsletter | Categories:

Race, racism and xenophobia in the media round table

Re: Invitation to a round table discussion on the representation of race, racism, and xenophobia in the media hosted by the Media Monitoring Project.

Read more | Posted: 4 May 2007 | Newsletter | Categories: Race, Xenophobia and Ethnicity

Press Freedom Day Special

The 3rd of May is World Press freedom day. Press freedom in South Africa is being threatened by the Films and Publications Bill. MMP’s director, William Bird, has just delivered Read more | Posted: 3 May 2007 | Newsletter | Categories:

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