Media
Support
Programme Objectives
Through this programme area, MISA aims to contribute to the improvement
of media standards through excellence in journalism, which includes gender
sensitive 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 be continue
to be administered
to enhance the skills of journalists.
MISA will continue to promote the establishment of self-regulation mechanism
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 observation 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 number of media support projects which are media
professionalism, gender in the media, HIV AND AIDS in the media and elections
and the media. Back