Apex Media Monitors

Despite what a recent CNN documentary claims, there is no pervasive child slavery problem in Ghana's Lake Volta region. CNN's documentary "Troubled Waters: Inside the child slavery trade" is part of its Freedom Project [still from video/Youtube] by Betty Mensah & Samuel Okyere 18 Mar 2019 On March 1, CNN aired a video  report  titled, Freeing the child slaves of Lake Volta, which followed a succession of similar "docufictions" and publications alleging the existence of pervasive child trafficking and child slavery in fishing communities along the Lake Volta in  Ghana . We (two academics who have studied this issue critically and carried out extensive interviews with members of Lake Volta communities and  a member of parliament whose constituents overwhelmingly live on and around the lake ) deem it critical to set the record straight as this is a complex social issue which needs careful analysis rather than melodrama and sensationalism. ...

REPORT OF QUALITATIVE MEDIA MONITORING OF ELECTRICITY REPORTING IN NIGERIA (JANUARY-MARCH, 2017) By Raji, Rasaq The aim of this monitoring exercise was to promote proactive disclosure of information, transparency and accountability for the purpose of good governance. Its objectives include: Researching into patterns, trend and style of the Nigerian print media’s reportage of power regulators in Nigeria; Identifying the level of visibility and close engagement accorded power regulators in the Nigeria media; Identifying the quality of sources through which media reportage is communicated to the -public; Assessing the role of the media in informing and communicating issues around electricity to the public, and how media framing of these issues has shaped discourse and narrative around the subject matter in many dynamic ways. The media content analysis was drawn from samples of publications in the selected newspapers in Nigeria between January and March, 2017...