Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc has partnered with the media practitioners on the need to understand essentials of reporting new trends in the journalism profession, especially with the proliferation of citizen journalists.
The training, which was facilitated by experts from TMTR Training Room, took place on Thursday 30th, May 2024 at Stanbic IBTC Holding Headquarter and had media practitioners drawn from across online and traditional media outfits.
The one day training focused on four core topics with subject matter professionals, equipping the participants with required tools and insights to better understand the new trends.
Dr Jekwu Ozoemene, who discussed the essential of reporting banking and finance,
noted that how the Nigerian media covers the country bankings and financial sector has been the subject of great debate among industry stakeholders, especially during the 2007 – 2008 global financial crises.
According to him, the media need to dig deep and inform the public, particularly happening at the monetary and fiscal end of government, because some people have argued that the coverage of the market failed to properly inform the public on how to precipitate the crash of the stock market.
Concerning the topics, Fake News : A case for Ethics and Professionalism in the Nigerian Media and Keeping facts sacred in the age of social media, mis-information, dis-information and mal-information.
The speaker Mr Toni Kan, writer, journalist, PR executive and co-founder TMTR, explained that the relevance of journalism in the age of social media, its for them to present news that are credible, factual, verifiable and true.
The last paper on Cybercrime Act and the Nigerian media practitioners, understanding the legal minefield was handled by Mr Deji Toye , PartnersThe Lodt Law Office, he talked about the cybercrimes Act of 2015 and the amendment that was made in February 2024.
In his presentation, attention was on cyberstalking and computer related forgery offences and how to avoid the pitfalls as media practitioners.
Commenting on the training, Mrs Bridget Oyefeso-Odusami Head, Marketing and Communications for Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, said “Stanbic is big in capacity building, hoping with this, we can build a bigge media landscape with ethical knowledge and transfer the knowledge to other media practitioners”.
While extending the greetings of Dr Demola Shogunle, Group Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic IBTC Holding Plc and Wale Adeniyi Managing Director of Stanbic IBTC bank, she described the engagement as an enlightening and insightful experience.
