Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives Daily Sun a MAD[1] for an article directly identifying child victims of a shooting thereby compromising their safety and well-being. The article titled, “Cops shot […]...
Media should play its role as duty bearers when reporting on issues involving a child who is a victim and witness to a crime and, ensure that the children are […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to GroundUp for an article titled, “COVID-19: Cookhouse police accused of beatings during curfew” (12/01/2021). The article has been selected as a MAD for failing […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives IOL a MAD[1] for an article indirectly identifying a child therefore compromising the child’s wellbeing. The article titled, “Five-year-old boy left out of class because […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to IOL for an article by Daily Voice that is published on the IOL website titled, “Boy, 10, left with crushed leg after […]...
The SABC’s Full View on 19 September, 2020 aired a story/interview wherein at least 12 minors are alleged to have been sexually violated by an unidentified man near Rustenburg. Unfortunately, […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is appalled at the level of carelessness displayed by News24 and IOL in coverage of crime involving children. The stories, both published within a pace of […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to SABC News for a broadcasted story in which a 17-year-old alleged victim of rape was potentially subjected to secondary trauma. The story is […]...
When reporting on children who are victims of and witnesses to a crime, the media must make sure that they are protecting those children’s dignity and privacy. Media Monitoring Africa […]...