The aim of the training is to strengthen the media for fair, accurate, ethical and inclusive reporting of the electoral processes and elections.
The International Press Centre on Tuesday, conducted a one-day capacity-building workshop for bloggers and online journalists on conflict-sensitive reporting.Participants were trained on conflict sensitive reporting skills and methodologies in covering campaigns and elections, hate speech election in reporting, the Nigerian media code on election coverage, safety of Journalists and 2023 elections and the imperatives of professional reporting online.
Mrs Aliyu advised the media to be highly ethical on what they report or not because they are tje gatekeepers and this she said can be done by detaching one self from the story and report the facts. Another trainer, Yunusa Yau who taught on hate speech in election report said hate speech can manifest in form of “incitingful comments against religion, ethnic group or linguistic affiliations or the intimidation of women and girls and persons living with disability”.
In doing this, he told the participants to ask politicians to provide evidence to accusations made during campaigns or choose not to report the story.
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