Media
experts in the country have advocated for adequate monitoring and regulation of
online media practice in Nigeria to maximise the great potentials of the
Internet in disseminating accurate information to the general public.
The advocacy
came at the heels of the official unveiling of Sundiata Post Media, an online
media platform, in Abuja.
Participants
at the event demanded for the establishment of a regulatory body and framework
that would guide online practitioners across the nation's cyber space to check
the increasing abuse of the journalism profession and dissemination of false
news.
They also
demanded that online publishers should sustain the confidence of their audience
by pushing balanced, credible, edited and verified news content to their
readers.
The chairman
of the Occasion, Mr. Tony Ojobo represented by Reuben Mouka said "the
online platform had evolved and will continue to evolve but the major challenge
of online journalism is the problem of control".
He noted
that most online platforms lack the key values of news, which includes
credibility, objectivity, trust, meaning and context.
A panel of
media executives led by a former Group Managing Director, Leadership Group Limited,
Mr. Azubike Ishiekwene, while discussing on a topic, "Has Online
Journalism Come of Age" submitted that online publication is future of
information dissemination, but acknowledged the impact of the mainstream media.
However,
Isiekwene said that the traditional media tends to be more reliable, because of
its strict compliance with ethics and guidelines of the profession. He said
these guidelines demand balance in news stories.
The Chairman
of the occasion and Director General, National Broadcasting Corporation, NBC,
Mr. Emeka Mba, represented by Awwalu Salihu, lauded the publisher of the online
news platform for his innovation that resulted in the establishment of the
platform.
Source: allafrica.com
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