Media practitioners have been advised to use digital technology to entrench positive change to check adverse effects on society.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS, Chief Uche Nworah gave the advice while delivering a keynote address during an interactive session organized by Social Communications Department of Awka Diocese for Catholic Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria, Awka Catholic Diocese, as part of activities marking the fifty-third edition of the 2019 World Communication Day.
The event which was attended by media practitioners from various media organisations and some institutions in Anambra state, avail media practitioners opportunity to brainstorm on how to effect positive change through communication.
Chief Nworah regretted that instead of using the advancement in technology to make positive impact in the society, some media practitioners use it to spread falsehood and unfounded information thereby causing unrest in the society.
On this year’s theme, “We are members one of another from network community to human Communities” Chief Nworah recommended constant human relation as a means of improving human communication.
He also stressed the need for fact checking before publishing, referencing Ephesians four chapter twenty-five that says each person must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to one another since they are all members of one body.
The President of CAMPMAN, Awka Catholic Diocese, Mr. Gab Okpalaeze, urged media practitioners to bring to bear things and events that would improve healthy living in the society through their style of reporting instead of pushing out negative information that could worsen the situation of helplessness and hopelessness in the society.
On his part, the chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Anambra state Council, Comrade Emma Ifesinachi called for unity of purpose among journalists for enhanced output.
The Director of FIDES Communications , Reverend father Martin Anusi, commended all who graced the occasion, and re emphasized on the need for accurate information and less fake news on the social media.
The Public Relations Officer and Head Media and Communications Federal Polytechnic Oko, Comrade Obini Onuchukwu, who extolled ABS management for organizing training and retraining of Journalists, called on media proprietors to ensure regular training of their staff to bring out the best in them.
The Managing Director, Anambra Printing Corporation, Publishers of National Light Newspapers, Sir Chuka Nnabuife in his remarks , stressed the need for journalists to move with the current trend in journalism.
Other journalists including Chris Obileri of Purity Fm, a blogger, David Eleke, Dr Henry Duru of UNIZIk, Mr. Nnamdi Chijindu of National Light Newspapers, among others, suggested ways of improving the welfare of journalists.
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