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 […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to Cape Times for flouting the Maintenance Act by indirectly identifying the children involved in a maintenance dispute which resulted in a murder. […]...
Stories about crime where children are involved should never be told with the children’s identities revealed. This is because identifying children in such stories places them at potential for harm. […]...
As pupils interact every day in schools, sometimes unfortunate incidents happen, incidents such as conflict, violence or getting hurt by another pupil. Such is the case in this article reported […]...
The article, “Police search for 17-year-old teen suspected of killing his father” published by SowetanLIVE (08/05/2020) has been selected as a MAD[1] by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for falling short […]...
With South Africa under lockdown, the impact of this and indeed of the Covid-19 pandemic features a great deal in the media including the impact on the economy. Many of […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives SowetanLIVE a MAD[1] for this article, “Teenager raped by a man posing as a municipal official” (30/03/2020) in which a traumatised girl was interviewed and […]...
Informal settlements usually bear the brunt of poor service delivery. People live in dire conditions and children are mostly exposed to all sort of dangers when playing. Dangers which may […]...