Media
practitioners in Uganda have been urged to stick to the truth in doing their
work if they are to enjoy their freedom.
The call was made
this morning by an American media expert Joyce Barett while training a group of
twenty journalists from Kasese district at the Spring International Hotel.
The three day
training on human rights and the new media is being organized by the Uganda
Media Development Foundation (UMDF) and supported by the US embassy in Uganda.
Barett said that
most of the governments in the world have not given the media all the freedom
but the journalists save themselves through writing accurate and true stories.
The national
coordinator of UMDF Mathias Mulumba Mayombwe said that the training is aimed at
equipping journalists with skills to use online tools like Face book, Twitter
and blogging to write multimedia stories that can be read all over the world.
Mulumba said that
modern journalism is now based on the vast knowledge the journalists have to
reach different audiences that cannot view television, read newspapers and
listen to radios but are able to follow online platforms.
He said that UMDF
targeted Kasese district because of the vast natural resources that need to be
written about for the rest of the world to know.
The participants
are drawn from radio, newspaper and film journalists in Kasese town. END
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