Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Being conversant with ICT would keep you in business, journalists told
Cape Coast, May 4, GNA - The Central Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalists' Association (GJA), Mr Ebo Sackey, has warned that the days when journalists failed to submit their stories on time with lame excuses were over.
According to him new frontiers had been opened universally for the practice of journalism and therefore media practitioners should be conversant with the use of social networks such as facebook, twitter and U-Tube.
He said this at the regional celebration of the World Press Freedom Day in Cape Coast under the theme, "21st century media; new frontiers, new barriers".
The programme was attended by media practitioners in the Region.
He asked them to be sensitive and proactive in the discharge of their duties because if they failed to report on events speedily and accurately others would go ahead of them.
Mr Sackey said journalists should not relax and depend solely on resources from their organizations before carrying out their assignments and that with the use of the mobile phones they could accomplish a lot of their objectives.
He said journalists should also use their meagre resources to invest in ICT tools and upgrade themselves to enable them work wherever they find themselves.
Mr Sackey said he was worried that the internet was not being used for social mobilisation and other positive values but rather it was being used negatively for illegal activities like cyber fraud popularly known as Sakawa.
He called on journalists to accept criticisms and urged them to coordinate their work together and build a strong team.
Mr Kwabena Antwi Konadu, the Station Manager of the ATL FM at the University of Cape Coast, reiterated calls on the media to be ICT literate and use the internet for positive ventures or else they would be left behind.
GNA