Children: Dying to Make the News
Author
Bharti Daya
Bronwyn Vreenegoor
William Bird
Gemma Harries
Publication Date
December 15, 2004
Summary
This publication discusses the Empowering Children and Media (ECM) project which aims to improve the representation of children and children's rights in the news media. The ECM project monitored how children and children's rights are represented in the South African news media in 2003. According to the writers, the monitoring serves as a baseline study, which will not only enable the development of policies and strategies to address strengths and weaknesses, but will also be used to further the development of a culture of human rights in the media, through training and advocacy initiative.
Topics include:
- What is the Empowering Children and Media Project?
- Theoretical framework and assumptions
- Methodology
- Limitations
- Putting the monitoring into perspective
- What key events occurred?
- Which children's items received extensive coverage
- Media's coverage of children
Publisher
Number of Pages
Contact
Director
Media Monitoring Africa (formerly Media Monitoring Project)
Johannesburg
2121
South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)11 788 1278
Fax: +27 (0)11 788 1289
UNICEF - Pretoria
Pretoria
0001
South Africa
Tel: +27 (0) 12 354 8200/354 8201
Fax: : +27 (0) 12 354 8293
Source
"Children: Dying to Make the News: An Analysis of Children's Coverage in the South African News Media" from the Media Monitoring Project.
Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site October 26 2006
Last Updated October 26 2009
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