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The Revealing Race project, funded by the Stewart Mott Foundation is the MMP’s most comprehensive race monitoring project ever.  Results show that racial stereotyping and xenaphobia are still apparent in South African media.  We also regularly monitor the representation of Africa in the media.

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Shades of prejudice: An investigation into the South African media’s coverage of racial violence and xenophobia by MMP
The research undertaken by the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) on behalf of CSVR has revealed that media interest in issues of race and racism did not end with the dismantling of formal institutional apartheid. However, the focus of media discourse on race and racism has shifted to new manifestations of racism, such as racism within political discourse and xenophobia.


Revealing Race: an analysis of the coverage of race and xenophobia in the South African print media by MMP
This report forms part of the broader “Revealing Race Project” of the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) funded by the Mott Foundation. The report reveals the results of the monitoring of a sample of Gauteng-based print media undertaken by the MMP from January to May 2006 on the representation of issues of race, ethnicity and xenophobia in the selected mediums.


The News in Black and White: An Investigation into Racial Stereotyping in the Media by Sandra
The methodology used in this study was deliberately chosen to achieve two main ends: first and foremost to reveal the extent to which racial stereotypes occur in the South African media. But secondly to act as a constructive critique of the media rather than pose a threat to its independence.

The monitoring revealed some interesting results which over the six week period suggested certain significant patterns of reporting. In many cases as with reporting of crime and of Africa, the negativity we have found associated with them seemed obvious and yet the racial element of many of these reports has needed to be recognised so that it can be challenged.


Radio News Diversity Project by Sandra
Diversity in media content, especially that of news and information programmes is crucial. The media, as a primary source of news and information in our society does have a large role in influencing the political, social and cultural agenda’s of the country. A limited range of news and information necessarily limits the diversity of information available to the public who as voters and tax payers have the right to be informed in order to make decisions in their lives.

Since the IBA’s inception in 1994, the licensing of new community and private radio stations has been widely welcomed as an indicator of the greater diversity of information and entertainment available to listeners. In terms of their licence conditions all stations licensed by the IBA have had to provide regular news bulletins and information programmes as part of their line-up, and the expectation has been that this would result in a wider and more diverse range of news stories, sources and areas of reporting. By providing news and information, the IBA hoped to ensure that all radio stations served the public’s information needs. Thus the IBA, through the community licences it issued attempted to allow as diverse a range of radio stations as possible, with the aim that these would provide a varied and valuable source of information and entertainment to the South African public.
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The picture that became a symbol for xenophobic violence by MMP

A picture says more than a thousand words. And some of them have the power to encapsulate events and become the visual symbol for political or humanitarian situations. An example of this is the picture of Hector Pietersen being carried by his sister which became a symbol for the Sharpville massacre. The image of a man who was set on fire that shocked South Africa and the world in the second week of the xenophobic violence has done the same for the recent xenophobic attacks. The Media Monitoring Project looks at the issues that this image raised for ethical journalism.

Media Monitoring Project submits complaint about Daily Sun reporting on xenophobia by MMP

The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) and its partner Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) submitted a complaint with Press Ombudsman Joe Thloloe and the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) today.

 

The Freestate Four – race and racism in the press by MMP

This update represents the findings of the research done into the coverage of the racist incident that took place at the University of the Free State recently and the controversial relaunch of the Forum of Black Journalists.

 
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