By Alyssa Gurklis On one of our last days in South Africa, we had the opportunity to visit Media Monitoring Africa. MMA is a South African non-profit organization that works to champion and protect human rights by monitoring the media. MMA makes sure that the media is held to high ethical standards throughout the African […]
Tabloids and Afrikaans
By Noah Lingwall Our third day in South Africa began with an interesting pairing of media outlets: The Daily Sun, a prominent tabloid, and the Beeld, a more formal Afrikaner newspaper. The dichotomy between these two publications proved to be the most intriguing part of the trip so far. Daily Sun Editor-in-chief Reggy Moalusi served […]
South Africa
By Tess Hamsher Our day started early as we piled into the van at around 7:00 am to head to Pretoria for our first day of site visits. Our first stop was the U.S. Embassy where we were able to speak with Foreign Service members working here in South Africa specifically on education programs and the media. It […]