The aim of this study was to examine the role of the print media during the apartheid era. The findings included in the ...
Reporting Abortion: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act
Clause 11 in our Bill of Rights guarantees the right to life whilst clause 12 (2a,b) gives everyone the right to “make...
Radio News Diversity Project
Diversity in media content, especially that of news and information programmes is crucial. The media, as a primary sourc...
Bad Girls: A Critical Analysis of Media Coverage of Women in Politics
This research examines the media’s treatment of women in politics over the past five years. Beginning with an evaluati...
So What’s News in the Elections? Events Not Issues: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the 1999 Elections
In 1994 the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) monitored the media coverage of the first democratic elections. In our final ...
A Snapshot Survey of Women’s Representation in the South African Media at the End of the Millenium
In our country discrimination against women and sexism continues despite a new constitution which guarantees all South A...
The News in Black and White: An Investigation into Racial Stereotyping in the Media
The methodology used in this study was deliberately chosen to achieve two main ends: first and foremost to reveal the ex...
LGE2K: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the 2000 Local Government Elections
On the 5th of December 2000 South Africans voted for the second time in the Local Government Elections. Unlike the 1995 ...
Blind Justice – The JSC’s Decision to Prevent e-tv from Broadcasting the Hearings
The JSC’s Decision to prevent e-tv from Broadcasting the Hearings Towards the end of last week e-tv reported that they...