The first day of school always gets media attention, with coverage of how children react to going to school for the first time. The day offers the opportunity to cover […]...
Monitoring conducted by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) in 2003 as part of the Empowering Children & the Media (ECM) strategy showed that only 6% of all news included children. The […]...
“Investing in the health and wellbeing of the children of South Africa is an investment in the future development of our country.” SA Medical Research Council, 2003 For the past […]...
Media Monitoring Africa has monitored every democratic election in South Africa. This year we are doing the same, providing daily and weekly reports on media coverage of election news[1], as […]...
Considering Youth Month provides ample opportunity to highlight issues around children, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) wished to assess whether this was happening in South African media and if the […]...
The comprehensive research study proposed by the MMP, the first of its kind in South Africa, aimed to address the representation of children and children’s rights in the news media. […]...
The Media Monitoring Project pioneered a best practice approach to working with children as monitors and with journalists as mentors in a project called the Children’s Media Mentoring Project. MMP […]...
On the 21st of March, all people in South Africa celebrate Human Rights Day which commemorates the Sharpville massacre of 1960 and the signing of the Constitution. This is the […]...
The Media Monitoring Project (MMP)’s research with children and media challenges a number of preconceived ideas about children’s programming, how it is understood, and how it should be regulated. The […]...