First published in Business Day 13 June 2018 Growth of online platforms in SA means national polls may not be immune to campaigns of disinformation William Bird, MMA The eyes […]...
First appeared in Daily Maverick here This open letter to Cyril Ramaphosa is a plea for a better media and communications strategy – and no more useless office bearers. By […]...
Today is a really important day, and unlike other big political meetings there will actually be some real outcomes. Safer Internet Day (SID) is a day that will grow in […]...
First published in Daily Maverick 10/11/2017 The latest Minister of Communications has decided to appeal a ground-breaking judgment that gave the SABC Board independence. Here we go again. Shooting ourselves […]...
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Written By: William Bird, MMA Director (First published in Daily Maverick, 10 October 2017) As we approach 19 October we can be sure that the issue of media freedom will […]...
Written by: William Bird We are gathered today for the 2nd Isu Elihle awards! Thank you all so much for being here. I promise you if you knew the hard […]...
Support our media, pay subscriptions, write to journalists when they do well and also when they let you down, and most importantly remind people who trash out media that they […]...
Having monitored the SABC’s coverage in the run-up to all our democratic elections, in 2016 Media Monitoring Africa found evidence for the first time of systemic bias. This is a […]...