The General Manager of Rivers State Newspaper Corporation (RSNC), Chief Ernest Chinwo, has charged upcoming journalists to be passionate about the journalism profession in order to register their pens in the information society.
\nChinwo, who gave the charge during an excursion of the Post-Graduate Students of Mass Communication, Rivers State University, to the corporation, noted that journalism was such that reckons practitioners with the bigwigs of the society, saying that such heights could only be attained through passion for the profession.
\nDescribing journalism as a noble profession, he said \u201cJournalism at\u00a0 any level is about passion. It is the power of journalism as it gives you access to persons that matter in the society \u201c.
\nFielding questions from the students, the General Manager said newspapering was faced with modern day challenges, including the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) trend and the \u2018New Media\u2019, stating, however, that the corporation was on course with its ultra-modern Speed Master Rotary Machine.
\n\u201cThere are prevailing challenges. We are in the ICT period where things are changing almost on a daily basis. Because equipment are changing, you also need to keep the pace. You need to upgrade not just the equipment but the materials.
\n\u201cThe advent of the new media also poses a lot of challenges to us. Times were when you have to wait till the next morning for your information but it is not so now.\u00a0 While the event is happening, people are already aware. So that people do not bother about buying the hard copies because the information is already obsolete by the next morning.
\n\u201cBut then, these media influencers are not professionals and I can say that more than 75 per cent of what you read in their reports are false\u201d, he stated.
\nThe RSNC boss stated that the falsehood was due largely to the absence of the traditional processes of news confirmation, adding that the challenge affects not just the media houses but the public in their news consumption.
\nChinwo further urged the students to, \u201ccome into the profession,\u00a0 embrace it and follow it up. It can take you to places\u201d.
\nHe said further that because of the new trend, the cost of producing a newspaper today is higher than the cost of sales
\nEarlier, the Deputy Group News Editor, The Tide Newspaper, Sogbeba Dokubo, who conducted the students round the different departments of the corporation noted that TheTide, established since 1971, was the best sustained in the comity of states\u2019 newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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