THE South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) said on Wednesday it was appalled that a false report about the so-called birth of Decuplets in Gauteng has been shortlisted for the upcoming Global Media Awards in June.
SANEF said the decuplets story – first published by Independent Media’s Pretoria News last year – is entered under the category, “Best Use of Social Media” in the International News Media Awards (INMA).
SANEF said it had since written to the INMA to express its concern, but despite this – the video series remains one of the nominees.
“We also find it entirely unsatisfactory that in its response, the INMA says the judges were “judging the quality of the social media campaign – not the story itself”,” said Makhudu Sefara, acting media freedom chairperson at SANEF.
“The INMA further went on to state it is “not in a position to reverse their jury’s decision
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