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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Children: Dying to Make the News

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  • Bharti Daya
  • Bronwyn Vreenegoor
  • William Bird
  • Gemma Harries
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

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"Children: Dying to Make the News: An Analysis of Children's Coverage in the South African News Media" from the Media Monitoring Project.

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