SOLACEBASE trains students on campus Journalism

By solacebase.com On Feb 20, 2023

BUK,NAMIP, SOLACEBASE, Kano, Campus Journalism, — Abdullateef Abubakar Jos, Publisher of SOLACEBASE online newspaper, addressing the participants, at the training.

An online newspaper, SOLACEBASE over the weekend trained students of Bayero University Kano (BUK) on Campus Journalism.

The One-day training held at the Faculty of Communication BUK was designed to teach the students practical Journalism. .

The training has the theme: ” Blending the gown with the town” Raising A Generation of Media Professionals.”

Addressing participants, Mallam Abdullateef Abubakar-Jos, Editor-in-Chief of SOLACEBASE online newspaper, said the capacity building was aimed at training young journalists and to catch them young for accountability and good governance reportage.

“We are conducting this training to acquaint the students with the requisite expertise on how to report activities within and outside the university community” he said

Abdullateef Jos urged the participants to pay attention to the training and make adequate utilisation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) , Fact-Checking and data driven journalism for their investigative reporting.

According to him, the participants were trained on the core of campus journalism and new media, story telling and reporting strategy and fact checking aimed at having a bright future in journalism practice..

Earlier, the Deputy Dean Faculty of Communication BUK, Dr Gambo Nababa, said the training was very timely.

Nababa urged the participants to make adequate utilization of the experience acquired during the training and step down the experience to their colleagues who were not opportune to attend.

He commended the organisers for bringing the initiative to the Faculty of Communication students.

Some of the paper presented during the training include, investigative reporting: “A practical approach to becoming a mouthpiece, Data and Digital Security for investigative journalists and Ethics Code of Conduct for Campus Reporters.