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By Anthony Isibor
THE Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has called on the media to continue to ensure that the Local Content achievements of the board are sustained.
Esueme Dan Kikile, Manager, Corporate communication, NCDMB, made the call at the capacity building workshop organized for the media in Lagos on Monday.
Speaking on the theme, “The strategic role of the media in sustaining Nigeria Content Legacies “, Kikile noted that the call was even more timely as the Board goes through a transition period.
According to him, the media is needed to sustain the development and sustenance of the Local content gains achieved by the board so far.
Lending his voice to the call, Olubisi Okunola, Manager, Strategy, NCDMB added that the board cannot achieve its goals alone without the collaboration of all the stakeholders, including the media.
He noted that these collaborations have been yielding great results over the years.
Okunola also explained that the Nigeria Content agenda is not intended to Nigerianize the country as many have assumed, but rather, it is intended for the domestication and domiciliation of high rising values.
Speaking on Retooling Competencies for the Changing Media Landscape, Azu Ishiekwene, Group Managing Director, Leadership Newspapers, urged the journalists to keep reinventing themselves through research and networking,
He urged the participants to stay abreast of the new tools as well as take advantage of the opportunities that the social media provides.
Similarly, Goddy Ikeh, a veteran journalist, media trainer and consultant, extensively charged the participants on the need to imbibe essential etiquettes and ethics of journalism.
Ikeh, who spoke on Essential Etiquettes and Ethics for a flourishing media career, noted that it is unfortunate that most practicing journalists have never seen a copy of the code of ethics for Nigerian journalism which serves as a guide for journalists.
According to him, there is hardly any professional body that does not have a code of ethics that guides and protects the members while they discharge their duties professionally.
Pointing out some of the common errors made by journalists, including lack of communication, gossips, lack of depths on information, Ikeh urged them to be very careful how they write so as not to betray the trust that the public has reposed on them.
He called on them to improve on their communications, reportage and conduct research in order to understand their environment and to be personable yet professional.
Ikeh also canvassed for editorial independence, brevity of language, privacy, privilege and non disclosure, as well as decency on the part of the journalists.
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-December 12, 2023 @ 11:45 GMT|
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