CJID Trains Journalists On Fact checking Skills in C’RIVER

By Ene Ene, Calabar

A Civil Society Organization, Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development, in collaboration with Dubawa Nigeria has organized a 2-Day digital skills and fact-checking training for Journalists in Cross River State

Speaking during the opening ceremony of the training at the NUJ Press Centre in Calabar, Project Manager, Dubawa Nigeria Temilade Onilede, stated that the workshop was aimed at supporting journalists productivity by building their capacity and providing the basic technology to enable them carry out their function accurately.

Onilede who gave an overview of the training exercise intimated that journalists would be trained on understanding Information disorder, Fact-checking, steps and methodology.

The Project Manager availed that the training will cover News and claim sourcing tools, Google news, trends, and Google Alerts.The outline also covers digital verification tools (verifying AI content, Reverse Image Search, and way back machine.

In her remarks, the chairman of the cross river state Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Comrade Archibong Bassey stated that it has always been her desire to see that journalists in the State are trained to meet with the challenges associated with the practice in this 21st century

“For me, it is my desire to see that members of the Union are trained and retrained to meet with the current trends of digitalization in carrying out their duties”.

” I thank the Centre for Journalists innovation and development for the training which is very important to members, believing that journalists will put to practice the knowledge they have garnered in the training which will help them to do their work effectively”, she stated.