Journalists Tasked on Gender Based Violence

Female journalists have been charged to step up the reporting of issues of sexual and gender based violence, (SGBV), with intent to encourage the elimination of violence in private and public life.

Speaking in Port Harcourt yesterday, during the launch of the ‘Report Women Project of Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism’ organised by Mrs. Ann Godwin, WSCIJ 2021 FRLP Cohort, the Executive Director of Media Career Development Network, Lekan Otufodunrin, also charged the female journalists to adopt qualities that can enable them stand out in the media industry.

Otufodunrin, who spoke virtually, further advised the reporters to be intentional, focused and move with the trend if they want to be distinguished in the profession.

Addressing the participants, the organiser of the training, Mrs. Godwin, said, she was spurred to transmit what she learnt during her training at the FRLP in Lagos to her colleagues in the state so that together female journalists in Port Harcourt can work together and give more voices to issues of SGBV, cross more frontiers and give spaces to women in various sectors of the economy.

Godwin charged the reporters who were mainly women not to limit themselves in the profession but to step up and build their professional carriers by utilizing what they learnt in seminars, trainings workshops to enable them fill the leadership spaces in newsrooms.