{"id":999,"date":"2011-10-17T08:53:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T08:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/media-practioners-meet-to-promote-professionalism\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T09:13:34","slug":"media-practioners-meet-to-promote-professionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/media-practioners-meet-to-promote-professionalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Practioners Meet to Promote Professionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-817 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/102_1314.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Rwanda Local media practitioners today gathered at Lemigo Hotel for two day training on media development intending to create more skills and professionalism.}}<\/p>\n<p>The Media High Council that has organized the training intends to initiate a series of activities among media organisations and leaders of Rwanda media to promote high professional standards and advance general media development in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a study conducted by Prof. Karikari Kwame about Rwanda\u2019s media, MHC validated a program for a series of seminars, forums, symposia, workshops, and events designed to address challenges of media development, especially strengthening media sustainability and advancing professional standards. <\/p>\n<p>Professor Kwame Karikari is the executive director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, a Ghana-based media advocacy organization whose vision is for a sub-region in which the fundamental human rights of freedom of thought and expression are guaranteed; and in which free mass media serve to bring to fulfillment all the other universally subscribed rights and freedoms for all persons.<\/p>\n<p>Such series of trainings will be including only 36 media owners, 21 managers, 35 editors, and 18 program managers with website owners excluded. <\/p>\n<p>Patrice Mulama during the press interview said, \u201cThis workshop will help give skills, ethical values, and professionalism to media practitioners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MHC report shows only 30% of journalists in Rwanda have enough skills required in journalism.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there are other journalism training manuals meant to equip reporters with skills too and will be implemented by the School of Journalism  in Kigali (GLMC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda Local media practitioners today gathered at Lemigo Hotel for two day training on media development intending to create more skills and professionalism.}} The Media High Council that has organized the training intends to initiate a series of activities among media organisations and leaders of Rwanda media to promote high professional standards and advance general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","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":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","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":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}