17 May 2018, Bekezela Phakathi The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) have called on the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) not to grant the company the licence, citing, among others, its links to the Guptas. Read the full article....
Grocott’s Mail Online, May 10 2018 Head of Policy Programme at Media Monitoring Africa, Thandi Smith believes digital literacy projects are needed for audiences to spot “dodgy” or “fake” news. Over the last couple of years, there certainly has been a rise in “fake” news. However, w...
News 24, 4 May 2018, Alet Janse van Rensburg “The EFF does get a disproportionate amount of media coverage compared to its share of the vote,” says William Bird from Media Monitoring Africa. “This is to a large extent due to its ability to create controversy and engineer news cover...
Daily Maverick, Rebecca Redelmeier, 3 May 2018 Today, it’s not only physical threats that put press freedom at risk. Threats to media freedom are provoked by a challenging global economy and an increase in fake news. William Bird, director of Media Monitoring Africa, noted these changing tides. ...
Daily Maverick, Rebecca Davis, 26 April 2018 Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird says that in light of the recent ‘Stratcom’ allegations that have accompanied the passing of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, there’s no time like the present to remember just how much better things are for journal...
Business Day, 24 April 2018, Bekezela Phakathi The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa have called on the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) not to grant the company the licence, citing, among others, its links to the Guptas. Read the full article....
Business Day, 18 APRIL 2018, Bekezela Phakathi The SOS Coalition: Support Our Public Broadcaster and Media Monitoring Africa said it was important to highlight the recent scandals around Infinity Media. Read the full article....
The Media Online, 29 March 2018, Glenda Nevill “Staggering,” said Media Monitoring Africa’s executive director, William Bird. “If true it is clearly an egregious violation of the most basic ethics and we need to demand clear action against those responsible. It violates the basic notion of ...
Pretoria News, 27 March 2018 Politics lecturer at the University of Pretoria, Sithembile Mbethe, has questioned why stories written by female journalists tended to feature more voices of men, while they overlooked the contributions from women. She spoke at an event in Hatfield, where the GCIS hosted...