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- Reporting Human Trafficking – can sensitivity and accuracy outsell sensationalism?
On the 3rd March 2011, an audience gathered at the Bioscope on Fox Street in Johannesburg for the first exclusive airing of the radio documentary “Human Trafficking and Child Protection: Is the Media telling the right(s) story”.
We’ve compiled a collection of the most thought provoking moments from the discussion that followed.
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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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- George Bizos to open MMA Photography Exhibition
CHILD PROTECTION & TRAFFICKING: Is the Media telling the right(s)story?
Photography Exhibition opening with guest speaker GEORGE BIZOS
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- Through the lens - Child Protection and Human Trafficking
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) invites you to attend the opening of their photography exhibition entitled “Child Protection & Trafficking: Is the Media telling the right(s) story?”
Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill
Wednesday, 17th November 2010
Arrival time - 17:30 to 18:00Photography by documentary photographer and trafficking expert Melanie Hamman, alongside a selection of work produced by learner photographers of Umuzi Photo Club and curated by MMA’s child Media Monitors.
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- Human Trafficking – Is the media telling the right(s) story?
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is launching a new website to look at issues of child safety and human trafficking.
MMA is working with children, media, NGOs and other interested and involved parties to create an environment in which myths about human trafficking are unpacked and a more comprehensive picture emerges of modern slavery in South Africa, and what we can do to stop it.
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