Last week Daily Maverick ran a piece by Jacques Pauw – it was a horrific personal account of what seemed to be wrongful arrest, false accusations of theft, and degrading […]...
On Monday, 14 December 2020, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) announced the 2020 lsu Elihle Awards winner. “Isu Elihle is an isiZulu phrase that means a “Great Idea” when translated to English, these […]...
Since March 2020, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has been monitoring the media and analysing how they have been reporting Covid-19, a pandemic that has dominated media coverage, since the first […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) embarked on a media monitoring exercise between May and September, 2020 to determine trends in media coverage of children. In order to show improvement in media coverage […]...
On 20 November 2020, MMA in collaboration with children and ALT Advisory launched the Children’s Digital Rights Charter, which forms part of MMA’s discussion document on the rights of children […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is launching the sixth brief in the series, ‘Analysis of Covid-19 Media Coverage’. These analyses are published consistently with the first brief having been published on […]...
Media Freedom Festival is an action-packed series of events that serve as an opportunity for us to ponder, probe and interrogate some of the key media-related issues of the moment. […]...
Children make up 34% of our population, which translates to around 19.7 million people under the age of 18.1 Children are afforded a special place in our homes, communities, and […]...
Children account for 34% of our population yet only appear in very few news stories.1 If we accept that one element of the role of the media is to “give […]...