NEWS / TRAINING: MISA trains journos on child reporting

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has trained Malawi journalists on child reporting. An initiative MISA programme specialist for Media Freedom Monitoring and Research, Levi Kabwato describes as an on-going effort towards empowering journalists to report informatively and positively on children and child rights.

The training took place this week in Blantyre where journalists were informed about various issues governing child right that focused on ethical guidelines and principles; international human rights instruments such as the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

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OPINIONS / ARTICLES: We want to be heard - children (SWAZILAND)

CHILDREN have raised a concern that the media in the country always omits their voices in stories that touch their lives. They claim most of the stories were negative, sad and about violence. This transpired during a study by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Swaziland, where children were interviewed on how they viewed media portrayal of themselves.

MISA, in partnership with Save the Children, conducted a training for journalists from different media houses on child reporting last Saturday. MISA conducted a follow up discussion with a focus on child rights.

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