GM Herald Newspaper Tasks Journalists On Investigative,  Development-Driven Journalism

Media practitioners have been urged to cultivate the habit of development-driven journalism and investigative journalism.

The General Manager of Herald Newspaper Mr. Yomi Adeboye made the call at a workshop organised by Albarka 89.9fm in collaboration with the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and Mc Arthur Foundation.

Adeboye who spoke on the theme: ‘Decentralization and local Governance’ stressed the need for media practitioners to concentrate on the local government level as well as hold local elected representatives accountable and be put to task.

” We should be able to put them to task, we must begin to hold our local elected representatives accountable, we should concentrate at the local Governance level, let’s leave the state and federal for now if we get it right at the local government level it will not take too long before we get it right at the state and federal level,” he said

“Journalists should report the people to the government and report the government to the people” he added

He also urged journalists to cultivate the habit of investigative journalism.

” The country must put in place a system where there must be disclosure about your activities when you are public officials. people must have access to information about the local government and its activities as well as its personnel”
He added

In her virtual presentation on fact-checking as a tool for Investigative reporting, Zainab Sanni of News Verifier Africa who spoke on the basics of fact-checking, how to identify the linkage between journalism and fact-checking and tools to fact-check said fact-checkers are not newsbreakers, stressed the need to verify before sharing.

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