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Mandela Day

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Wondering what you can do for Mandela Day? Here’s Media Monitoring Africa’s suggestion: Spend 67 minutes reading and explaining the news to your children.

It’s a small gesture but it could have a big impact. Not only could it change your child’s approach to the media but you may be surprised at how much your child can teach you!

How can you do this? Simple: do the DRIVE!

Read more | Posted: 16 July 2010 | Newsletter | Categories: Children, Other
Public Service Broadcasting Bill latest

Thank you to everyone who signed our petitions to extend the deadline for the Public Broadcasting Bill. With the pressure you helped generate, an extension was granted up to January 15, 2010.
However, currently, it seems that the Bill will be going forward without a Parliamentary Review Process. This is despite the submissions by both MMA and the SOS coalition that call for a review based on the fact that the Bill is unconstitutional and vague in its current form. The implications of the comments from the minister appear only to have been picked up by Business Day in yesterday’s edition, otherwise see the original statement.

In this newsletter:  MMA’s response to the PSB Bill, the new media for children’s website and the blog by William Bird about funding and the SABC.

Read more | Posted: 21 January 2010 | Newsletter | Categories: Children, Media Freedom and Performance
Supporting free and ethical media

This newsletter highlights two MMP activities that support free press. Firstly, the Save our SABC campaign to ensure the independence of our public broadcaster. Then, the complaint against the Daily Sun, whose coverage of the xenophobic attacks could be used to curb media freedom at a time where there are several threats to media freedom already. The third piece is a reflection on the use of images of dead bodies, why it happens and what alternatives exist.

Read more | Posted: 25 September 2008 | Newsletter | Categories:
Violence, Zimbabwe and the Freestate Four

In this newsletter:

  • Coverage of the free state four, to name and shame or not to name and shame?
  • Violence in the media, download one of our radio conferences for pertinent listening;
  • Great opportunities to take your studies further, and
  • Reclaiming our SABC - a civil society response to the recent crises at the SABC.
Read more | Posted: 19 May 2008 | Newsletter | Categories:
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:

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