{"id":37300,"date":"2018-04-13T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T11:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kaboneka-urges-journalists-on-professionalism\/"},"modified":"2018-04-13T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T11:20:27","slug":"kaboneka-urges-journalists-on-professionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kaboneka-urges-journalists-on-professionalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaboneka urges journalists on professionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The call was made yesterday in Kigali when media fraternity convened at Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) to commemorate the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and slain journalists in particular.<\/p>\n<p>He called upon journalists to read through the lines before they publish their stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you write or read news you control some people\u2019s minds. We should think about how our publications will impact the society, we should think about that before we publish or air anything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kaboneka said that crosschecking before publication will help journalists not to fall into the trap of being used as journalists did before 1994.<\/p>\n<p>RBA Director General, Arthur Asiimwe said that current journalists should learn from mistakes committed by fellow journalists.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis is the time to reflect, reassess and find among ourselves more efforts to provide our contribution in building the nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty journalists were killed during the genocide, but research continues to establish more victims.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24772 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_w_ubutegetsi_bw_igihugu_francis_kaboneka-11-d1157.jpg\" alt=\"Kaboneka speaks at the commemoration event yesterday\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24771 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_mukuru_w_ikigo_cy_igihugu_cy_itangazamakuru_rba_arthur_asiimwe-a5bab.jpg\" alt=\"RBA Director General, Arthur Asiimwe  speaks at the event yesterday\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Local Governance, Francis Kaboneka has called upon journalists to pay much attention to professionalism in their publications so as to avoid falling in the same pit of journalists before 1994 that disseminated hatred which fuelled the genocide that took lives of over one million Tutsi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37300"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37300"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}