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ACCRA, GHANA– THE 2014 edition of an annual journalism
mentoring programme, designed by the International Institute of ICT Journalism–
Penplusbytes to provide professional nurturing opportunity to Journalism and
Communication students, is slated for Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 at the New
Media Hub, Osu- Accra.
Dubbed the “Future Journalism Project”,
this year’s event focuses on exploring technologically efficient ways of
propagating news information in a largely digitizing world. Penplusbytes has
instituted the “The Future of News Competition”, which will be preceded by a
half-day workshop on the central theme of “News Innovations”.
The workshop is to help expose
the need in pushing beyond the imaginary boundaries of news dissemination by
boosting the capacities of participants to identify and better appreciate the
gains existing in leveraging the rather increasing technology avenues such as
social media tools in the news generation process.
Participating in the one day
event are 11 invited Communication and Journalism schools that are be expected
to come out with innovative ideas for publishing news. Each school is expected
to be represented by a three-member team which will make a case for their
various innovations through a presentation to a panel of judges after which the
winner will be rewarded with a cash prize of GHȼ 2000.00 and a certificate.
“This is a unique platform for our
would-be communicators and journalists, affording them the chance to shape the
future of journalistic excellence by bringing to bear their ideas of news
innovations and showcasing diversity in strategy for news dissemination in our
new digital age with a chance of being rewarded and this is exactly what Penplusbytes
stands for; excellence”, said President of Penplusbytes, Kwami Ahiabenu II.
A mentorship mechanism is in
place to ensure that participating students will, ahead of the competition,
receive continuous assistance and tutelage from astute practitioners on their
various innovative works for the competition after which winners will be
rewarded with cash prizes and certificates.
Penplusbytes is a leading
pan-African, not-for-profit organization, that seeks to empower the media
through the use of Information Communication and Technologies to promote high
quality journalism while at the same time working in good governance and
technology, new media and innovations, as well as oil, gas and mining.
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