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Programme Objectives Through this programme area, MISA aims to contribute to the improvement of media standards through excellence in journalism, which includes gender senstive reporting. This will be done through media awards and selective training programmes, like election reporting, based on the accessed needs of media practitioners. The scholarship program will continue to be administered to enhance the skills of journalists. MISA will continue to promote the establishment of self-regulation mechanisms as the preferred option to statutory councils which are favoured by governments. The program will also draw in freelance journalists to endorse and practice code of ethics. Through various observations and desktop research it is shown that media ethics is mostly violated by freelance journalists as they lack institutional support, back up and proper training. Programme Goals This program consists of a number of media support projects which are media professionalism, gender in the media, HIV AND AIDS in the media and elections and the media.
Walking the Talk A report on Gender coverage by the media during the period of Zimbabwe’s 2008 harmonised election.After months of monitoring the media between January and June 2008, the election period in the country, MISA Zimbabwe launched the Walking the Talk report. Walking the talk is a multi media report that includes also a photo journal on the portrayal of women by the media and an audio documentary that contains interviews carried out with female politicians that contested in the harmonised election of March 29, 2008. The documentary focuses on the opinion that the women had on the way the media handled the election, and especially whether the media highlighted their campaigns. The full report is available on request at the MISA-Zimbabwe offices.
To download a copy of the report, please click here
Click here to visit the MISA-Zimbabwe Gender and the media blogsite
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