by Alao Abiodun, Kunle Sotibi, Olamide Okegbenro & Raji Olatunji
The University of Ibadan Campus Journalists were certainly not left behind in Premium Times Journalism clinic tour to 8 selected Nigerian Universities to effectively train campus reporters on the rudiments and basics of Investigative Journalism.
The 3-days Premium Times Investigative Journalism Training session held at Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan on the 17-19th of August 2017 had in attendance 50 University of Ibadan campus Journalists. This training was done in collaboration with NUCJ, UCJ UI and sponsored by Ford Foundation.
The 8-hours daily programme was efficiently and effectively facilitated by two resourceful, ingenious and highly experienced professional journalists; Dapo Olorunyomi, Publisher, Premium Times Nigeria and Deji Adekunle, PTCIJ Program Officer.
The facilitators made the training sessions very interactive. The sessions accustomed the campus journalists with the modus operandi of journalism and precarious future of Nigeria journalism due to negligence of journalists on incommodious issues in the society. The training comprised of numerous sessions among which are data journalism, investigative interviewing, media decision making via ethical thinking, holistic safety for journalists and threat modelling.
Mr. Dapo Olorunyomi while taking the students on journalism, investigative journalism after stating the two current crisis in the media which are Ethical crisis and Revenue crisis, made known to the students why the training was necessary as there is need for the students who are upcoming journalists to be visioned and be equipped to get the media profession better. He made the students to know the importance of Journalism in the current and future dispensation.
Furthermore, Mr. Dapo Olorunyomi took the students extensively on the challenge of purpose, journalism as a decision science, core elements of journalism, three accountability media, investigative interviewing, holistic safety for journalists among many others.
However, Mr. Deji Adekunle trained the students on Data journalism by getting the participants acquainted with the rudiments of data journalism. He also trained the participants on the functions of a data journalists, basic steps to a data project amongst others. The training session ended with words of encouragement from both resource personnel coupled with group photographs to reflect the wonderful memories and experience garnered.
