Accessing children, ventilating their views on matters that involve them and protecting their identities when necessary are some of the most important journalistic ethics that which journalists ought to abide […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives Daily Sun a MAD[1] for an article where a child is interviewed, an action potentially subjecting the child to further trauma. The article titled, “Baby daddy bust for alleged murder” (Daily Sun, 12/02/2022) reports ...
The media has a responsibility to protect children in their coverage of the children especially when there is a potential for harm. Unfortunately, a child who was sexually abused was […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives DispatchLIVE a MAD[1] for an article indirectly identifying children who witnessed the killing of their father and grandfather in a horrific manner. The MAD is given […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives both DispatchLive and Weekend Argus a MAD[1] for their articles that directly and indirectly identify child victims thereby subjecting them to secondary trauma and other […]...
The article, “Boy,11,shot cousin,7,won’t be charged” (Daily dispatch, 04/10/2021, p.2) has been selected as a MAD[1] by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for falling short of the ethical and legal principles of […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives The Witness a MAD[1] for publishing an image of a two-year-old boy showing him tied by the neck to a pallet reportedly by his grandmother. […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is appalled by an article published by Daily Dispatch and as a result the publication receives a MAD[1] for reporting a story relating to a child […]...
The Sowetan newspaper is given a MAD[1] by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for a series of four articles the publication wrote on child rape and teenage pregnancy in and around […]...