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- GMMP South African Country Report
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The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) South African report was launched at Constitutional Hill on 7 March 2006. According to Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, speaking in her keynote address “In spite of the numerous advances that we have made as a society, it is clear even from the results of the GMMP that high levels of inequality still prevail in our society.”
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- Coretta Scott King and the media: Martin’s wife
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In early February 2006, local newspapers carried news of the death of Coretta Scott King, the widow of American civil rights activist, Martin Luther King II. Most of the articles merely announced her death. Some papers, in particular, were unique for the angle they took in covering Scott King’s death. Only some media detaiedl Scott King’s life as an activist before she met Martin Luther King.
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- e-tv: Violating the rights to privacy and dignity
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One of the central principles of journalism is the protection of the rights to dignity and privacy. The importance of sensitive coverage of those who are grieving, who have endured trauma, is enshrined in journalistic codes of conduct throughout the world. The commercial free-to-air channel, e-tv, has demonstrated some very concerning trends in media coverage over the last month.
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- GMMP: Global report
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The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the most extensive global research of gender in news media ever undertaken. When the first GMMP was conducted in 1995, few of those involved could have imagined that it would develop in the way that it went on to do. Ten years later, with the third such project now complete, the enormous significance of this international initiative is clear.
The MMP completed all the data analysis for the entire project. Please view the key findings of this global initiative.
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- Coverage worth Celebrating
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The issue of sources, of who gets to speak, who is quoted and commonly asked for their opinion in news stories, is a common indicator of gender coverage in the media. International research, including the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) and the Southern African Gender Media Baseline Study (GMBS), showed that on average women comprise only 17% of all sources, while men account for 83% of sources.
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- The Good News About Gender-based Violence
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Halfway through the 16 Days campaign, the comparison in coverage over the last seven years offers some startling findings; most of which are positive.
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- Who took up the challenge? Selected Media Coverage of National Women’s Day 2004
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The MMP assessed a number of print and broadcast media during the week preceding National Women’s Day, on the day itself and on the 10th of August. In the MMP’s assessment of how the media responded to the challenge consideration was given to the number of reports about women, the kind of topics that addressed, focused on or were aimed at women, and the prominence of where or when these items appeared in the news.
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- Women’s Day 2004 - Summary
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The MMP assessed a number of print and broadcast media during the week preceding National Women’s Day, on the day itself and on the 10th of August 2004.
Top Three for 2004:
- Mail & Guardian
- This Day
- Sunday Times
Despite being a weekly paper and therefore only having one edition in which to respond to the challenge, the Mail & Guardian managed to out-perform all of the other media monitored during the period. Not only were numerous items devoted to women featured in the Mail & Guardian, but the medium also included women as a central focus of its news agenda. This meant that the Mail & Guardian mainstreamed women in their paper, including female journalists, sources, female perspectives, diverse images of women, famous and ordinary women as authors and contributors. The Mail & Guardian‘s ability to determine its own news agenda ensured that the medium generated meaningful discussions about women’s rights and issues, instead of just event-based reporting on some of the functions held in commemoration of National Women’s Day.
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- National Women’s Day Media Challenge 2004
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The MMP’s challenge is for the media to mainstream women on National Women’s Day. Instead of media merely concentrating on so called “women’s issues” and only on the celebrations that are set to take place on the 9th of August, the MMP challenges the media to fill their papers, radio broadcasts, television schedules and news programmes with women.
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- Reporting Rape: Ethics, Gender and Human Rights
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This article is a response to news dominated this last week by the story of the alleged rape of a South African woman by a South African judge.
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