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 […]...
The overall aim and objective of Empowering Children and Media project is to analyse the representation of children and children’s rights in the South African news media. This report serves […]...
This resource kit provides journalists with the necessary information to enable children’s voices to become a part of daily media coverage, without violating children’s rights, South African laws, or international […]...
We are all outraged when bad things happen to children, but the very reporting of these outrages can violate children’s rights to be protected. Three key issues can be identified […]...
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 […]...
Following the highly successful challenge issued to the South African media last year for the coverage of National Women’s Day, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) has decided to re-issue the […]...
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 […]...
The latter half of the 16 Days campaign has seen a number of stories naming or identifying children who have been abused or have witnessed crimes. While the overall intention […]...
Joint statement by SA Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa and the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) of SA on High Court censorship of Mail & Guardian: Misa-SA and […]...