A non-governmental organisation advocating freedom of the press, often called the ‘Media Rights Agenda’ (MRA), has introduced that it’s going to convene a collection of workshops throughout the nation within the coming weeks to sensitise journalists about legal guidelines and rules affecting the media in Nigeria.
The NGO mentioned journalists shall be outfitted with a complete understanding of the authorized panorama governing media operations to reinforce their capability to report ethically, freely and safely.
In response to a press launch issued to our correspondent yesterday by Mr Timileyin Adams, the programme officer of the NGO, the primary of the workshops can be for journalists primarily based within the South-Western states, including that it’s going to happen in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on August 6 and seven, 2024 whereas two different workshops shall be held subsequently in Owerri, Imo State, for journalists within the South East and South-South; and in Abuja, for journalists from the northern a part of the nation.
Adams defined that the workshops are knowledgeable by the necessity to equip journalists with the data and instruments essential to allow them to navigate media legal guidelines and rules confidently, competently and safely.
“The authorized panorama in Nigeria presents a fancy internet of legal guidelines and rules affecting the media, a few of that are misused now and again by governments and different highly effective members of the society to impede the work of journalists and the media.
“These workshops symbolize a major step in direction of empowering journalists with the data and abilities they require to navigate the complexities of those legal guidelines and rules and revel in the advantages of related regional and worldwide devices,” he mentioned.
In response to him, every of the workshops, which is able to span a interval of two days, will cowl a variety of matters and points essential to journalism observe, together with nationwide, regional and worldwide frameworks on freedom of expression, media freedom and the protection of journalists and authorized frameworks which can be inimical to media freedom in Nigeria.
He particularly mentioned the matters will concentrate on digital safety and customary digital threats to journalism observe, ethics in journalism observe in Nigeria, useful authorized frameworks for journalists and the media and methods to keep away from authorized liabilities as journalists, amongst others.
