In the media

One has to ask how to differentiate between facts and misinformation or disinformation, otherwise known as fake news.

Because of the importance of the case, the South African National Editor’s Forum (SANEF) and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) became involved and asked to be allowed as amicus curiae (friends of the court).

The communications festival will feature presentations from Google journalists, Initiative Studio, Facebook, TikTok, Media Monitoring Africa, the Public Relations Institute of.

The communications festival will feature presentations from Google journalists Initiative Studio, facebook, TikTok, Media Monitoring Africa, the Public Relations Institute of.

Director for Media Monitoring Africa, William Bird weighs in on the tragedy in which an Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was shot while covering a raid by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.

Media Monitoring Africa Trust said that works need to be adapted to more accessible formats, including digital formats that enable the use of screen readers, as well as adding.

World Press Freedom Day — the annual event marked on May 3 to remind governments around the world of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom — is a time of reflection among media professionals.

South Africa is facing several threats to freedom of expression with at least 59 separate incidents where journalists were subjected to physical or verbal attacks and harassment,.

According to Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird the Constitutionally protected freedom of expression and the media is being steadily eroded by the decreasing number of.

Sentech, is going to drive the provision of additional channels over the new digital devices being distributed.

Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird said sensationalism often crept in when news media focused on big events as they happened, reporting on xenophobia at the point of an assault or violent confrontation.

Government Communications and Information System held a round table discussion earlier today on how the media can report on immigration issues and anti-foreign sentiments to foster social cohesion.

Broadcasting firms such as eMedia Investments, Media Monitoring Africa, MultiChoice, the National Association of Broadcasters, the South African Screen Federation, and the South.

But eMedia, they of eTV fame, also has objections to Multichoice’s dominance in the advertising sphere. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) suggests the creation of a Media Sustainability Fund in South Africa.

Panellists from Media Monitoring Africa and the Film and Publication Board highlighted the importance of online safety, recommended interventions to protect children online and.

The broadcaster said that in the litigation against the minister over the analogue switch-off, e.tv (and fellow litigants Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition).

Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and UNICEF is inviting journalists within the African content to apply for the lsu Elihle Awards.

Media Monitoring Africa, the Goethe Institut, IFA and the German Embassy hosted a panel discussion with a number of stakeholders including Professor Everisto Benyera (associate.

This was revealed in leaked communication sent by Ntshavheni to the SABC.

Khumalo added that although children are using the internet they are not using it wisely or in a way that puts them on platforms where they can participate in high-level discussions and decision-making processes.