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- An initiative that shows pupils and schools achieving excellence
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The Times is displaying great innovation in providing a conduit for schools and pupils to share their positive experiences. In the series of “My School Project” articles (2007), The Times regularly gives schools, education programmes and pupils the opportunity to share their stories, highlighting the achievements of young people and their capacity to excel and effect positive change. The Times should be commended for taking this approach.
- City Press commended for promoting children’s welfare
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The article in City Press, “How to cope with stress of matric exams” (21/10/07, p. 39) is one to be glad of, and should be highly commended. It brings attention to and promotes the interests of children, accesses expert sources, includes children’s contributions, and adopts a responsible approach to children’s welfare.
- Article on failed government programmes on children
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The article “Pupils starve as feeding programme collapses” that featured in City Press (7/10/07, p.12), is a reason to be glad, because it draws attention to the way in which the failure of Government in implementing the feeding scheme impacts on children’s wellbeing. The highlighting of this failure promotes the interests and rights of children.
- Issues on safety in schools
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24/09/2007, 3.48 PM
The article “Pupils take sides in aftermath of tragic KES stabbing”, by Angelique Serrao and Alex Eliseev in The Star (20/09/07, p.3) is one to be glad about because it focuses on the much publicized issue of violence in schools and opens it up to wider discussion.
- highlighting issues in rural area
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An article in the Sunday Times is one to get glad about, because it raises interesting issues about abuses in rural areas. However, there are some aspects in this piece that one could get mad about.
- New publications bill still a threat to media freedom
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The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) has been petitioning government to change the proposed Film and Publications Amendment Bill. While it is crucial to protect the rights of children, the MMP argues that the Bill has negative implications for media freedom in South Africa. Amongst other things, it is trying to get the country’s newspaper’s to self-regulate. Chakula spoke to William Bird, the Director of the MMP, and Sandra Roberts, a Project Co-ordinator at the organisation.
- Media wise - children make the difference
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The comprehensive research study proposed by the MMP, the first of its kind in South Africa, aimed to address the representation of children and children’s rights in the news media. The ECM project took place over a three-month period in 2003. A group of monitors reviewed print, radio and television media to identify trends in the portrayal of children in the news. In an exciting and innovative research approach, the MMP also sought the active participation of children, in order to understand their views and perceptions of children’s representation in the media. The MMP, together with Clacherty & Associates, an organisation that specialises in participatory work with children, co-developed the content and methodology of the participatory workshops. Clacherty & Associates facilitated the workshops, which were run with the children. As part of the process, the children engaged in a parallel monitoring project where they monitored the media for a two-week period. This was done so that the children could express their views directly and see for themselves how they are represented by the
- Environmental hazards and children’s vulnerablity
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The Sowetan (24/07/07, p.4) published a story titled “Lives at risk as mines coin it: State knew about danger for 40 years,” about exposed toxic wastes which allegedly endanger millions of people in Gauteng and the North West Province. This article is one to be glad of as it is educational, includes the views of children, and covers a topic which does not receive as much attention as it could do; the environment.
- Reporting on Children in the Context of HIV/AIDS: A Journalist’s Resource
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In the context of widespread HIV/AIDS and poverty, this booklet provides reference information about children affected by HIV/AIDS and related policy issues, which need urgent and in-depth coverage by the media. With the imperative to “put children first”,this booklet challenges some of the limitations and misleading messages in current coverage, and offers a resource list to help media with the task of shaping an appropriate national response to children affected by the epidemic.
- Success in Daily Voice complaint
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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.
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