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- What is interesting to the public may not necessarily be in the public interest
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Two articles by Saturday Star and Sunday World may well be interesting to the public but are certainly not in the public interest. More significantly, the articles are not in the best interests of the children whose parents are being reported on.
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- The best interests of the child disregarded by two articles in The New Age.
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Two articles by The New Age were selected for a MAD for identifying children when it was not in their best interests.
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- Children: an Election issue?
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How do we get answers from local election candidates and their parties on how they plan to tackle the many problems facing children in South Africa?
Here’s our Piercing the Promises: Election Accountability Tool for journalists on children’s issues
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- The Star explores the pros and cons of introducing HIV testing for schools
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In an impressive effort to carry the debate, The Star ran a series of articles from 7 to 14 March, written by a diverse range of experts addressing the pros and cons involved in introducing HIV testing in schools, and for this it gets a GLAD.
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- Daily Sun subjects child to further trauma and possible harm.
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“Ashes to Ashes for teenager,” (Daily Sun, 22/02/2011, p.4) was selected as a MAD for insensitive reporting that also identified a 16-year-old girl who had gone through three very traumatic experiences.
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- The Star tells the untold story of Egyptian children during the protests.
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An article titled “Sucked into vortex of revolution” (The Star, 16/02/2011 p.15) gave Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) a reason to be GLAD as it is one of the few articles that focused on the impact the protests in Egypt had on the children in the country.
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- Thumbs up to The Times for respecting children’s rights in race story
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The Times receives a GLAD for two articles which protected the identities of children who alleged that a teacher called them by a racially derogatory term. The articles were also sensitive and balanced.
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- Sowetan gets a GLAD for reporting on children who are fighting for change in their community
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Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards Sowetan with a GLAD for its story “Pupils Tackle Alcohol Abuse” (22/03/2011 p. 12) which provided children from Soweto with a tangible platform to strongly speak their minds and provide their insights on an important social issue – the negative effects of alcohol abuse.
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- The Star congratulated and cautioned on reporting on hospital victims in the same breath.
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Two juxtaposed stories published by The Star highlighting the challenges faced by two boys, as a result of negligence at public hospitals, emphasise the ethical challenges of reporting on such stories, and while one gets a GLAD, the other unfortunately merits a MAD.
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- Sowetan - Child witnesses should not be named
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Sowetan‘s article “Gunned down in his yard” (14/03/2011, p.2) neglected the rights of a 17-year-old child witness by naming him. The article further indirectly identified the child by naming the school he attends. It receives a MAD for ignoring the rights of the child and consequently placing him in danger.
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