SOUTH SUDAN: Stick to the traditional editorial ethics, news editors urged
The head of the Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) is urging the station managers and news editors to stick to the traditional editorial policies which informed the public with facts.
Addressing more than 20 station managers and editors in Juba on Friday, Oliver Modi, challenged editors to ensure they assign their reporters to collect what he terms as “First-hand information” so that members of the public are given accurate, authentic and reliable information.
Modi believes that, a real editor must be aware and updated with surroundings of every aspects of life adding that reading, listening to news on a daily basis must be a traditional practice of all the editors.
He revealed that reaching to the main sources of the story and assigning a right reporter will minimize risks of misleading the public with wrong information.
Modi reiterated UJOSS commitment to continue offering short training for journalists in the country to build up their professions.
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Source: CRN
