FG urges Journalists
FG urges Journalists to Re- examine
Gatekeeping on Duty
Everyone is a journalist in the society with the advent of the
Social Media, but the truth remains that journalism without gate
keeping is not journalism. People posting false stories and
pictures with phones have destroyed people’s career, but there are
consequences.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Hon.
Sunday Dare made this known during a courtesy visit of TVC News
team to his office led by the CEO. Mr. Andrew Hanlon.
The Minister said that TVC and its concept in the past
8 to 9 years have continued to increase professionalism on the job
of gate keeping and professional content. TVC has made a crop of
professionals through its constant training of his team of staff,
thereby carving a reputation of a good manager of resources and
clear market leader when it comes to one of the networks in the
country.
The Minister confirmed that the Ministry has two
mandates which are Youth Development and Sports Development,
stressing that Television and sports are together, the number of
people who watch sports on television is very high. Hon. Dare
emphasized that we are about developing sports in Nigeria; in the
past years, we have seen sport culture decline but we want to bring
it back. We intend to embrace the television in sports development,
not just in Nigeria but in the diaspora.
The Honourable Minister said, “The size of our youth
is massive and the best way to reach out to them is still through
television. We want to connect to our target audience, and TVC is a
good platform to leverage on to share audience, for that we can
partner together”
In his opening remarks, Mr. Andrew Hanlon, CEO of TVC
News, said that they play the role of entertaining and informing
unbiased, adding TVC has up to seven million viewers and listeners
everyday connecting to their television and radio, which is a huge
responsibility on the network.
Mr. Hanlon reiterated that education and training is
key to TVC, hence they invest in their people through constant
training for staff, and investment on
infrastructure.. “The advertising industry in Nigeria is
declining, and the revenue is the life blood of the industry, and
it is affecting our business” he added.
To this end, the CEO said the organization has come a
long way and wish to partner with government agencies like the
Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, which has huge audience,
so as to help the Ministry disseminate information and campaigns to
targeted audience.
It is worthwhile to note that the team from TVC
presented a plaque to the Minister of Youth and Sports Development,
Hon. Sunday Dare.
Obiechina Ngozi