Journalists, bloggers to benefit from digital training sponsored by Airtel

Full-time and freelance journalists are the targets at the digital journalism training which is being sponsored by Airtel Nigeria in collaboration with The Journalism Clinic.

A statement by Taiwo Obe, director, The Journalism Clinic, said that the training will start in Lagos on Monday, August 21 and on Monday, August 28, in Kaduna.

Obe said the training, which will be facilitated by Dan Mason, an internationally-acclaimed digital journalism trainer, will last five days in each location, with three days for multimedia storytelling and two days for data journalism.

“The training is open to full-time and freelance journalists, practising in Nigeria, but we will not disregard applications by interested bloggers, who, like the journalists, must show sufficient cause why they should be considered for either of the modules. No one person will attend the two,” he said.

Obe said preference would also be given to those who had not benefitted from the previous digital journalism training sponsored by Airtel.

In 2015, Airtel Nigeria sponsored 100 journalists on the #ChangeYourStory multimedia storytelling training also organised by The Journalism Clinic and facilitated by Mason.

“We strongly believe that the more our journalists are equipped, the better for our society,” Segun Ogunsanya, Airtel managing director, said.

Interested journalists are advised to watch out for further information on The Journalism Clinic’s Facebook page, its Twitter handle @Clinic4Journos or send emails to founder@TheJournalismClinic.com