Rwanda Local media practitioners today gathered at Lemigo Hotel for two day training on media development intending to create more skills and professionalism.
The Media High Council that has organized the training intends to initiate a series of activities among media organisations and leaders of Rwanda media to promote high professional standards and advance general media development in the country.
In a study conducted by Prof. Karikari Kwame about Rwanda’s media, MHC validated a program for a series of seminars, forums, symposia, workshops, and events designed to address challenges of media development, especially strengthening media sustainability and advancing professional standards.
Professor Kwame Karikari is the executive director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, a Ghana-based media advocacy organization whose vision is for a sub-region in which the fundamental human rights of freedom of thought and expression are guaranteed; and in which free mass media serve to bring to fulfillment all the other universally subscribed rights and freedoms for all persons.
Such series of trainings will be including only 36 media owners, 21 managers, 35 editors, and 18 program managers with website owners excluded.
Patrice Mulama during the press interview said, “This workshop will help give skills, ethical values, and professionalism to media practitioners.”
The MHC report shows only 30% of journalists in Rwanda have enough skills required in journalism.
He said that there are other journalism training manuals meant to equip reporters with skills too and will be implemented by the School of Journalism in Kigali (GLMC).
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