Resources - Guides and Tools
Media Monitoring Africa provides guides for both journalists and civil society.
- Editorial Guidelines and Principles on Reporting on Children in the Media
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Media Monitoring Africa launched a new set of Editorial Guidelines and Principles on Reporting on Children in the Media on 19 October 2011 which also saw the commemoration of Black Wednesday and the 15th birthday celebrations for the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF).
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- Gender: An Election Issue? Election Accountability Pack
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51% of the population is female
40-50% of women have experienced violence at the hands of a partner
None of the local election manifestos touch on gender-based violence specifically.Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), GenderMattersZA, Open Society Foundation, The Daily Maverick and Frayintermedia have teamed up with the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) and Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre to launch a “Piercing the Promises: Election Accountability Pack” on gender issues.
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- Service Delivery: An Election Issue?
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MMA together with experts from the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute and The Centre for the Study of Democracy compiled questions to aide journalists in holding candidates for the upcoming local government elections accountable. This is the second part of the Piercing the Promises: Election Accountability Pack with a particular focus on Service Delivery.
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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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- Plain language version of the Protection of Information Bill (Open Democracy Advice Centre)
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If you want to know more about the Protection of Information Bill, check out this Plain Language version of the Bill, drawn up by the Open Democracy Advice Centre (ODAC). Well done to the ODAC for coming up with such a user friendly guide!
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- Empowering Messages – What you should know: Strategic Communication and Gender-based Violence
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Practical guidelines for producing strategic communication aimed at addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in Southern Africa and improving gender equality.
Strategic Communication is communication for behavioural change, and behavioural change is one of the key requirements for reducing the incidence of gender-based violence.
The guidelines were produced after a study of communications in South Africa and Namibia, including media campaigns, and of the many resources that already exist. In order to meet some of the needs identified through these studies, the guidelines include:
- A 10 step plan to follow for producing a communication strategy;
- - How to go about researching your intended audience to produce the right message;
- - Understanding behavioural change and its relation to your intended audience;
- - Monitoring & Evaluation planning and techniques appropriate to gender-focused communications.In addition to the PDF version, hard-copy books are also available. Please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) should you be interested in obtaining copies.
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- Editorial Guidelines and Principles for Reporting on Children in the Media 2008
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This booklet is the result of the collaboration between MMP and Save the Children Sweden in Zambia, based on research in that country. It offers practical advice for journalists on covering children in an easy-to-understand and user-friendly format.
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- 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.
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- How does the news get into a newspaper?
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This children’s resource is in the form of a slideshow explains the news process from the time of an event until the reader gets the newspaper. Colourful, clear pictures illustrate this process for children aged 9 to 13 years. Posters are available for schools showing this process.
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- Monitoring Made Easy - Gender
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The Monitoring Made Easy (MME) tool is an African first. It will enable any human rights organisation to monitor how gender is represented in print and broadcast media. By using the MME software, you will be able to produce almost instant results based on best-practice media monitoring methodologies developed by the Media Monitoring Project. You will be able to analyse and challenge media coverage of gender, as well as, evaluate the impact of your organisation’s media campaigns. Apply Media Monitoring Project’s world class methodologies in your organisation today!
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