‘Campus Journalism Dialogue’ Launch Underway
Arrangements have been concluded by Youths Digest, a popular online/magazine news platform and organizers of the glamorous ‘Campus Journalism Awards’ (CJA) to launch the first ever ‘Campus Journalism Dialogue’ (CJD).
The Dialogue is geared towards building ethical, vibrant and professional newsrooms on campuses, through the intellectual cum literary activities of students’ campus journalism associations, while thoroughly grooming talented and versatile student-writers.
The massive investment in the Nigerian media entails nurturing and building the capacity of upcoming journalists, just as about 90 percent of Nigeria’s mainstream journalists and celebrated media icons cut their teeth during their higher institution’s’ school days.
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The dialogue will educate selected-participants on ways to fight the menace of hate speech, fake news, libelous publications, slanderous comments and brown envelope syndrome, among other ills bedeviling the media.
�Aware of the fact that our campus journalists will play a greater role in entrenching good governance, helping to build strong institutions and discharging their watchdog mandate in the nearest future, eminent resource persons and accomplished journalists have been invited to give talks and mentor the students-writers to attain fame and achieve glory in the media profession.
�Meanwhile, organizers of the Dialogue will liaise with school authorities towards curbing the spate of victimization by ensuring that campus journalists who report happenings on their campuses are not harshly punished, while also providing legal aid to student-writers who are victimized.
Other takeaways from the Dialogue include but not limited to creating awareness on the need for journalists to shun brown envelope, propaganda journalism, just as an informative social media capacity-training will be organized for participants.
The Dialogue will take place across selected tertiary institutions in the six geo-political zones in the country.
Gidado Y. Shuaib,
Executive Director,
Youths Digest.
