Medrive, an organization that offers training on storytelling and the use of technology to advance media advocacy, has trained Nigerian journalists and media practitioners on sensitive and conflict reporting.
The training which held on Thursday, August 15, in Lagos, focused on the need for fact-based and responsible reporting whilst equipping participants with relevant skills for telling impactful stories.
The public places trust on the media to report factual news and tends to accept the stories that are told by journalists and reporters. According to Wemimo Adewuni, founder of Medrive, there is, therefore, a burden on the media to tell stories in an objective and non-divisive way.
The need for a careful approach to reporting sensitive news and conflict based events is crucial especially in Nigeria where crisis usually have their root in ethnic and religious matters.
At the one-day training, media practitioners across different outlets and states were engaged in a practical session where step-by-step approaches to fact-checking reports and identifying fake news was taught.
