The Constitutional Court will today hear arguments in a case dealing with the protection of the identities of child victims, witnesses and offenders before and after they turn 18 years. The Centre for Child Law (Centre) will argue on behalf of Zephany Nurse, Media Monitoring Africa, Childline and NI...
Wits Accredited Certificate Course – Reporting on Children in the Media – (10 Day Course) 17 – 20 June and 23 – 28 June 2019 DOWNLOAD THE COURSE OUTLINE Entrance requirements: a minimum of 2 years reporting experience or a degree/diploma in journalism with a minimum of 6 months rep...
Media Monitoring Africa, a leading media research organisation in Africa today launched the first report on coverage of the 2019 national elections in South Africa. Read the report. We are officially in elections season! With less than one month to go until South Africans hit the polls, we ask the q...
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Several videos of a teacher repeatedly beating children at a creche in Carltonville has been circulating in the news as well as social media. We understand that as parents, we want to share this picture and story to as many people in our social networks as possible in order to bring awareness around...
MMA (Media Monitoring Africa) and the IEC launched a world first for the South African 2019 elections period – the digital disinformation complaints process on Monday 1 April. Disinformation, misinformation and ‘fake news’ during election periods is a scourge that has affected the fairne...
25 March 2019, News 24, William Bird Sometimes it feels like there is not a whole lot that we can do about the lying devious scum who seek to undermine our democracy. It can feel overwhelming and that the nefarious forces will always win, but fear not, there are a few things that we can […]...
What is an influencer? In South Africa, and elsewhere on the globe, brands have been steadily moving away from tradition forms of advertising and expanding into the the realm of social media where they use influential personalities to market and promote their brands and/or ideas. These personalities...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) condemns the ‘doxing’ of Radio 702 and ENCA Talk Show Host and journalist Karima Brown as well as the threats and abuse that followed. Doxing is the act of revealing identifying information about someone online — their real name, address, workplace, phone number, ...