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Leading telecommunications
services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has restated its commitment to deepen the
practice of the journalism profession by creating platforms and opportunities
that will empower journalists to become more adept and
proficient at their jobs.
Speaking at the flag-off
of the prestigious Airtel Journalism Clinic, a multi-media training designed to
bridge the gap between traditional and digital journalism practice, Vice
President/Director, Corporate Communications & CSR, Airtel Nigeria, Emeka
Oparah, said Airtel will continue to support interventions that will help
journalists drive positive societal change through balanced and robust
reporting.
According to Oparah, the
Airtel Journalism Clinic is part of the telco’sCorporate Social Responsibility
programme to give back to the media – a key stakeholder in the society.“We
strongly believe that the more our journalists are equipped, the better for our
society,” said Oparah.
The Airtel Journalism
Clinic, which is facilitated by Dan Mason, an internationally-acclaimed digital
journalism trainer, will last six days in Lagos, three days in Kaduna and will
focus on multimedia storytelling and data journalism.
Also speaking at the
flag-off, Taiwo Obe, Founder/Director of The Journalism Clinic commended Airtel
for supporting the initiative to empower journalists and bloggers in the
country.He charged journalists to make good use of the opportunity to redefine
storytelling.
“The world need converged
journalist right now as communication landscape continues to change. This is
why we appreciate the effort of Airtel Nigeria to sponsor journalists for this exclusive
training”, he stated.
On the impact of the
training, Dan Mason enjoined all participants to utilise whatever they have
learnt to better their performances as professional journalists in terms of
content development, digital tool utilization and in delivering news in a
smarter way.
Airtel Nigeria in 2015
sponsored 100 journalists in the country for the #ChangeYourStory multimedia
storytelling training, which was also organised by The Journalism Clinic and
facilitated by Mason.
The training which kicked
off on Monday, 21st August in Lagos will end on Saturday, 26th August and also
hold in Kaduna from Monday, 28th August toWednesday, 30th August,
2017.
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