INTEGRITY AS A TOOL OF JOURNALISM
“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything,” says Gordon A. Eadi.
One of the significant ethics of the journalism profession is integrity, which involves the ability to say things and make a report without an inch of compromise or leaving any fact behind no matter how little, having it in mind that “whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
Journalists face violence and intimidation for exercising their fundamental right to freedom of expression. The range of threats faced include murder, kidnapping, hostage-taking, offline and online harassment, intimidation, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, and torture. Read More
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By Oluwatosin Akinrinde
It is a known fact that the media is saddled with the primary responsibility of portraying issues that are peculiar to a particular set of people within a socio-political terrain. It is of essence to note that the authors of our 1999 constitution understood the necessity for community reporting by inserting a fundamental clause in section 22.