Jigawa State Correspondent’s Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists NUJ has commended National Information Technology Development Agency NITDA for training its members on digital Journalism and Digital Facts Checking.
The Chapel Chairman, Comrade Muhammad Zangina Kura made this known to newsmen in Dutse, the state capital.
According to him, the training will enhance professional skill of the practicing journalists to meet up with the contemporary challenges posed by digital technology.
Zangina Muhammad Kura pointed out that, journalists were confronted with dimensional challenges from social media which serves as a vehicle for the spread of fake news in society.
He said such training would enhance the capacity of members to counter the menace of fake news in society through authenticating the source of any information for proper public enlightenment.
“Today everyone has access to social media and can bombard the public with sorts of fake and distorted news, which only trained professionals can understand as false information” the chairman said.
Kura, therefore, charged the beneficiaries of the training to use the new ideas and skills acquired from the training to enrich their editorial contents with correct information and would help counter the spread of fake news which pose a great danger to the global peace and stability.
COV//USMAN MZ