Anambra commissioner urges journalists to always update skills

 

Maduako Igbokwe l Wednesday, September 7, 2022

 

AWKA – Anambra State Commissioner for Information  , Mr Paul Nwosu has urged journalists to  continuously update their skills  in the profession as social  media cannot replace traditional media.

The Commissioner gave the advice on Wednesday when the members of Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of journalists( NUJ) Anambra state visited him in his office.

According to him, journalists should always   update their  knowledge on the process of news gathering, processing and dissemination as social media cannot replace the traditional media..

Nwosu said that the fact that somebody can afford electronic gadget  and write story does not make  him or her a journalist. He said that journalists are trained to processed  information before pushing them to the public, while social media writers just sit in their homes and write  story for the public .

“Journalists are  trained to disseminate information. They cross check the facts of what they are writing  for the public. Social media  can be any person who can afford handset to  write what he/she wants. People sit in their house and write anything they want” he said

According to him, Social media has not in any way affected the traditional  news media in the country , noting that if   anybody wants a credible  news, he knows it can only be found in traditional media.

He said  the advent  of social media has brought about fake news and hate speech, stressing that the  real people get their news from the traditional media by  trained journalists.

According to him, there are a lot of investment in traditional Media and must not die. Earlier the chairman of the chapel, Chief Chukwujekwu Ilozue commended the state government under the leadership of  Prof Charles Soludo for his developmental in the state.

According to him, the chapel had always maintained a cordial relationship with the previous governments and wanted the relationship to continue.

He also urged the  commissioner to assist the chapel in it’s forthcoming workshop billed to hold on November.