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Media Monitoring Africa’s Thandi Smith said suggestive posts from high-ranking political and public figures officials had reached a large number of social media users quickly and indirectly exacerbated tensions.

Media Monitoring Africa’s executive director, William Bird, said that failing to do so would effectively take the country back to apartheid.

Women journalists face the double burden of being attacked as journalists and women.

Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), in partnership with UNICEF South Africa, launched the ‘Reporting on Children in the Media Course’ at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg today.

Earlier this week Media Monitoring Africa, led by broadcast media legal expert Justine Limpitlaw, hosted a closed workshop with key stakeholders, including the government, to discuss the draft bill.

William Bird is director of Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and Thandi Smith heads the Policy & Quality Programme at MMA, a partner in the 411 platform to counter.

MEDIA SUMMARY The following explanatory note is provided to assist the media in reporting this case and is not binding on the Constitutional Court or any member of the Court.

When the hearing started on Tuesday in Louis Trichardt, it first had to entertain a request by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) to be allowed as an amicus curiae (friend of the court).

Director of Media Monitoring Africa William Bird says it’s only getting worse.

As we navigate the crisis, its essential we recognise the role of our media, that we support them and enable them to do their jobs, that we allow them to listen to report and.

The arrest of former president Jacob Zuma brought with it mixed reactions from all corners of the nation.

We need to be saying to them (VRM), you need to come clean about what sort of things were they telling you and what issues the public need to know about.

Last year, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) complained to the BCCSA that Gareth’s showbroadcast on July 22 2020 was unlawful, harmful and in breach of SA’s broadcasting.

Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) in Parkhurst, together with the Impact Amplifier are excited to invite all Web Ranger ambassadors and child monitoring learners to join forces with.

Director of Media Monitoring Africa William Bird says it’s only getting worse.

Last year, the Johannesburg-based NGO Media Monitoring Africa published a report on the media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa.

The Media Monitoring Africa Director breaks down the journalistic faults in the Thembisa 10 story which has been running for the past two weeks.

Currently the Agape Youth Movement is rolling out an online life skills programme that learners attend over a period of 18 days.

Back home media monitoring Africa’s director William Bird said the government’s response was irrational.

The SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) have backed the public broadcaster.