Media Release
- Media Monitoring Africa launches latest report “Children’s views not in the news”
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) today launched its latest report focused on children’s portrayal in the news media.
In addition to the core findings, MMA released its second media ratings of children’s coverage. It rated the performance of print media against each other and showed which cover children the best and which media need a rethink in strategy.
- Invitation to launch of MMA report “Children’s views not in the news”
At a time when media is under a lot of scrutiny join us to find out how selected print media are doing in covering one of South Africa’s most marginalised groups - children. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has been monitoring selected print media to see how children are represented in the media. The report, titled “Children’s views not in the news”, will be launched on Thursday 26 August 2010.
- Winners and Sinners on Women’s Day
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has been sifting through the articles and submersing itself in reports, and here are our best and worst picks of media’s representation of women on the 9th August 2010, and in the days immediately before and after Women’s Day.
13 newspapers, all based in Gauteng, as well as television reports (ETV and SABC1, 2 and 3), were looked at as part of this qualitative project. This is just a quick snap shot of the winners and sinners on Women’s Day.
- MMA calls for evidence based reasoning in debate about Media Appeals Tribunal
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is deeply concerned about the disproportionate and unbalanced accusations about the print media and its journalists made by the ANC in its discussion document: 2010 - Media Transformation, ownership and diversity.
- Times Too hasty in Picture Publication
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is concerned about The Times’ decision to publish an image of a dead infant on its front page (21/07/2010).