“Our current engagement in The Gambia is logical, as part of efforts at defining a common solution to a common problem within the ECOWAS sub-region.'
“Our current engagement in The Gambia is logical, as part of efforts at defining a common solution to a common problem within the ECOWAS sub-region.
At the opening of the Liberian training, at the Murex Plaza in Monrovia, the country’s Deputy Minister for Information, Boakai Fofana, speaking on the theme, thanked the, for “organising this very important training that is geared towards giving journalists the skills needed to do their work in order to contribute positively to the national discourse,” which he said “poses new challenges to the journalism profession.
Journalists should not allow themselves to be used as puns in what Mr Fofana called political chess games, counseling Liberian journalists “to go beyond the periphery and dig deeper” because, in his opinion, “Fake news can have dire consequences, from creating mistrust in the media to undermining the democratic process.
From its modest beginnings in 1871, Ms. Alagbe noted that the Gambian press has earned a noble place in the country as a nation builder, consensus mechanism and foremost institution of modernity and promotion of the liberty and freedom of the Gambian citizens. She said the training conducted in collaboration with the Gambia Press Union will cover accountability journalism, theory and history of fact-checking, as well as the structure and ethics of the practice.
“At a time when the Gambian society is so polarised as we have it here today, what we expect is a press that is courageous to tell the truth and be accurate in its reporting and our excitement is that Dubawa will be a very helpful addition to the conversation of pushing our democracy forward,” said John Charles Njie in his contribution, echoed by both Saidina Alie Jarjou of Action AID and MArdi Jobarteh of Westminster Foundation all who unanimously offered PTCIJ a welcoming hand to the Gambia...
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