The Chairman of the Daily Trust Foundation (DTF), Alhaji Bilya Bala, has charged journalists to upgrade their skills in order to move with the new global trend of multimedia journalism.
Bala stated this while addressing participants of the multimedia reporting workshop organized by the Daily Trust Foundation with support from the MacArthur Foundation for journalists from the seven northwestern states in Katsina.
“A lot of people in this part of the country are not conversant with this new technology in journalism, particularly multimedia. Most people are analogue, they rely on the physical way of doing things.
“We are now in a digital world and if a journalist is not trained to use the digital applications in his or her job, within a short period of time they will become the story because nobody will hire anybody that still uses pen and paper for their newsgathering and reporting.
“Every journalist should realize that it is important to join the trend of technology, multimedia and all sorts of applications that will assist in discharging the onerous responsibility placed on him.
“So, journalists must rise and acquire new skills and adapt with the new trend if they want to remain relevant in today’s highly competitive environment,” he said.
The chairman congratulated the participants for the opportunity to obtain the new skills and tasked them to share the knowledge with others.
Bala promised that with the availability of resources, the training would be expanded to cover other parts of the country.
About 30 journalists from northwestern states participated in the workshop.
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