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South Africa’s first Media Sustainability Index (MSI), which assesses companies’ relative performance on sustainability-related media reportage, was launched today by sustainability consultancy and publisher, Trialogue and co-creator – media analysis specialist, Media Tenor. The Index received launch support from sustainability-focused coalition, the National Business Initiative (NBI).
In anticipation of this year's Women's day, Media Tenor has analysed to what extent media have increased or decreased their reporting on women across the social, business and governmental spheres. The results indicate a considerable improvement, but not yet satisfactory results.
International media coverage of xenophobic attacks in South Africa plunged the country’s approval rating to the worst levels since January 2007, according to new research by Media Tenor. The same is true for President Thabo Mbeki’s public image and the economy, albeit for different reasons. Despite Mr Zuma’s recent attempts to woo foreign business and political confidence in his newly won presidency of the ANC, most international media remain cautious. South African business is still viewed with some optimism, but it faces an uphill battle to regain the enthusiasm expressed in 2007.
After receiving marginally less coverage than Jacob Zuma in 2006, Thabo Mbeki reclaimed the top position with a decisive lead in 2007, according to research conducted by Media Tenor. In business news, ABSA retained its position as the company most reported on in the media for the third consecutive year, while Standard Bank rose from 4th to 2nd position in 2007. In Media Tenor’s annual comparisons of influential media, the Sunday Times and Mail & Guardian continued to firmly hold on to the top positions, while the Beeld has been making inroads when it comes to establishing credibility amongst its peers.
Pretoria. Foreign nationals residing in South Africa, particularly Zimbabweans and Mozambiqueans, are consistently linked to criminal behaviour in South African media. The country’s media also seem to reinforce stereotypes of different nationalities. These are the findings in new research on xenophobic agenda-setting conducted by Media Tenor South Africa. Though indications are that the Daily Sun was the main contributor to negative perceptions of foreigners, other media have also played an important role in reinforcing negative stereotypes of African immigrants.
Pretoria. 2006 saw a dramatic reshuffle in reportage on companies and cited media, according to research conducted by Media Tenor. While ABSA retained its position as the company most reported on in the media, Eskom was the biggest mover. It shot into third position after not appearing on the 2005 list. Carte Blanche, the most cited source for six years, not only slipped from its first position, but fell to third place, behind the Mail & Guardian and top newsmaker Sunday Times. And Jacob Zuma? 2006 saw more coverage on him than the country\\\'s President, Thabo Mbeki, who lost his number one spot to his former deputy for the first time since 2000. He also earned top honours for being the public figure most spoofed by cartoonists in the last two years.
Although the HSRC and the Department of Health have considered various HIV/Aids communications campaigns effective in reaching out to the public, these efforts have so far not been reflected in any significant improvement of media coverage on this issue, the latest Media Tenor research of leading SA media from October 2004 - September 2006 shows. Despite the fact, that the pandemic continues to increase, issues related to HIV/Aids still receive less than 1% of the total media coverage. In addition, the coverage remains inconsistent and linked to events such as the World Aids Day or strongly associated with public figures, particularly the Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and Jacob Zuma.
As the 2006 FIFA world cup in Germany slowly disappears from the front pages of the leading world media, the eyes of the soccer world are already turning to the host of the next championship in 2010, South Africa. And not only the soccer world, but also the voices in the media are becoming more vocal: will South Africa be able to justify the trust FIFA has placed in the country – and the continent – or will the federation be forced to put forward plan B (if there is one), and organise the event somewhere else? And also, will the country, which is in international media still more often associated with negative than positive news, be able to attract enough interest to utilise the full economic potential of such a major event? With the current international media image this will certainly be no small challenge.
As South Africa celebrated Women's day this week, media expectedly turned their attention to mothers, business women, female politicians, female artists and other women in South Africa. But for how long? Will women once again become 'casualties' of the trend from the previous years when focus of leading media on this part of the society dropped as soon as the celebrations were over and remained low until the 9th of August the year after, or will South African watchdogs this time manage to break the trend and allocate more media space for women even after the 'curtains go down'?
Towards the end of 2005, M-Net's current affairs programme Carte Blanche received some criticism by leading marketing experts citing, amongst other things, declining quality of journalism ('electronic tabloids', Clive Simpson in Marketingweb, 19 September, 2005). The latest criticism seems to be in slight opposition to the opinion of leading South African print and electronic media. According
The recently released crime statistics suggest that actual crime has decreased for most categories in the recent years, yet media's coverage on crime has proportionally increased. These are the findings of Media Tenor's analysis of the coverage of leading South African media's coverage of crime during the period of January - August, 2005 (and compared to the same period in 2004). In plain numbers, 2004 of a total of 79 081 reports on crime and 2005 82 230.
According to official figures published by the South African Department of Health in 2004, the HIV infection rate amongst antenatal attendees (other statistics are not freely available), has grown from 24.5% in 2000 to 29.5% in 2004. Of even further concern are statistics on infected age groups, which show that 25-29 year olds? infection has increased from 30% to 38% and that amongst those younger than 20 years, 16% were infected. According to research by the Medical Research Council (MRC), HIV/Aids is responsible for around 44% of all deaths in the country in 2004, and for the age group 15-49, an incredible70% of deaths were attributed to HIV/Aids. Nevertheless, HIV/Aids seems to take up a small space in the media environment in South Africa, as Media Tenor research confirms.
Research conducted by Media Tenor on the top twenty foreign personalities covered in the South African media, found that politicians featured the most prominently in the news from January to June 2005 with fourteen personalities being politicians. The other personalities included two royals, two religious leaders, one economist and a celebrity.
While the G8 Summit and recent World Economic Forum focused the world?s attention on Africa and its problems, the South African media has not paid more attention to Africa than other regions. However, the continent's image has gradually improved since 2001, when it had 30% negative rating.
New York. The perception of industries depends greatly on what people read in the media or see on evening news broadcasts, according to a comparison of Media Tenor's media analysis with research from Gallup. Media Tenor analyzed all reports on companies from various industries on the evening news b
Media's focus on executive remuneration is not new, but Media Tenor's research indicates that the volume of coverage is increasing, not only internationally, but particularly in South African media. Lately, Business Report undertook a detailed analysis of the value of CEO payments compared to compan
President Thabo Mbeki emerged as the most quoted politician in leading SA media in 2004, outstripping all other politicians. He was quoted 9 739 times more than Jacob Zuma, Trevor Manuel, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Tony Leon and Martinus van Schalkwyk collectively. Opposition leader Tony Leon w
Cape Town emerged with the most positive media coverage in a selection of leading South African media. Although the analysed media did not include Cape newspapers, Cape Town emerged third after Johannesburg and Pretoria in volume, but came out a clear winner in terms of positive coverage received. In fact, only the Mother City and Bloemfontein (with considerable less coverage) managed to draw more
ABSA, Telkom and Harmony were the most reported on companies in leading South African media in 2004, according to research conducted by Media Tenor South Africa. All articles in the business, opinion and news sections of leading print media, as well as all reports on television news were analysed over a period of twelve months, totalling 190229 reports/articles. While ABSA and Telkom generated co
Johannesburg, South Africa - 18 November 2004: SABMiller has emerged as the listed company with the best media reputation in South Africa in the first annual Media Image Survey, the first comprehensive study of media coverage attracted by JSE-listed companies. The results of the survey, a joint initiative from Idea Engineers, Axius Publishing (publishers of Convergence magazine) and Media Tenor we
Low volumes of political coverage, as well as the mostly neutral reporting on parties and their leaders, means it is unlikely that the Namibian press will have an impact on existing voting patterns and preferences. This is the key finding of a joint study conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in Windhoek, Media Tenor South Africa in Pretoria and the Media Institute of S
With the exception of NBC, the networks, both cable and broadcast, ignored hard issues in their post debate analyses. Although almost 90% of the statements by the candidates during the three debates concerned policy-related issues. None of the networks topped NBC's 45% share of issue-oriented commen
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