JOURNALISTS CHARGED TO FOCUS MORE ON HUMAN INTEREST STORIES

Written by Woke Kevin Participants at the One Day Capacity Building for Journalists in Port Harcourt Climbing up the staircase to the office seeing few journalists already seated, one was wondering what will she say that we do not know or haven't heard before! But it came as a surprise, when she started by introducing the lectures to be discussed on after the ground rules; Gender mainstreaming, this sounds like ah! Is this what we will be talking about here? More men than women here. Career Check, we started looking at each other faces, she continued further, how to be the social media Tech, using Social media to maximize opportunities, then, we knew we are about to learn something we are not familiar with. Then, she said, News and Data sources, we all knew that we are in a serious business. These were all the topics we learnt during a One Day Capacity Building for Journalists. "Put on your gender lens and report women. Focus your re...