A former Zonal Director of the Nigeria Television
Authority (NTA) Ibadan Network Centre, Prince Bayo Sanda has described
journalism as a challenging profession that has to be practice with utmost
care.
Prince Sanda stated this on Tuesday 20th
August while speaking as the guest lecturer on the topic “challenges of
broadcasting industry in a multiparty state” organized by the International
Institute of Journalism (IIJ) Abuja Ibadan centre to mark end of its 2011/2012
academic session.
The lecture that took place at the institution’s campus
located at the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretariat Iyaganku, Ibadan
was attended by a former Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) General
Manager Alh. Kola Animasahun, Chief Executive Officer Broadcasting Corporation
of Oyo State (BCOS) Mr. Yanju Adegbite, a former Commissioner of Information in
the State Alh Gboyega Arulogun, Coordinator of the centre who is also a former Commissioner
for Works Alh. Bolaji Kareem, media practitioners, alumni, students and
lecturers of the institution featured presentation of awards to some of the
outstanding students of the institution.
The Oyo born veteran broadcaster who is also the chairman,
board of director of BCOS who urged journalists to be careful , knowledgeable, decent,
creative and practice within the purview of the existing laws highlighted poor
funding , political instability, crises, sentiment/ nepotism, conflicts of
interest as some of the factors militating against the broadcasting industry
across the globe.
“You have to be creative and this will make you one
step ahead of your peers, courageous and aware of the existing laws so as to know
what the laws permit you to do and what not to do because you are gatekeepers
who decide what goes on air. This is a challenging profession you are about to
do or some of you are into the system but it is a tasking one and this make you
a step ahead of other professionals”. He said.
The formed director who urged them to admit any
mistakes committed in the course of doing their job emphasized subjective-objective
approach to journalism profession where they marry both the ethics of the
profession and environmental factors such as mood of the society, national interest
and the existing laws together in their reportage so as not to be extreme on
any other the sides.
The outgoing president of the Students Union
Government (SUG) of the institution Mr. Femi Olapegba said the “International Institute
of Journalism IIJ Abuja Ibadan centre is one of the centres of IIJ, an
affiliate of the University of Maiduguri Borno State has been a training
institute for thousands of journalists who have had a certificates in any of
the courses of the institution such as National Diploma, Higher National
Diploma and the Post-Graduate Diploma within and outside the country”.
Musliudeen Adebayo, this reporter is one of the
recently graduated Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism student of the
institution.
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