Ouagadougou: The General Directorate of Communication and Media (DGCM) organized from June 5 to 7, 2024 in Bobo-Dioulasso a capacity building workshop for the benefit of journalists from the Hauts-bassins, Cascades, and South-West regions.

Around sixty journalists, including editors-in-chief, from the Hauts-Bassins, Cascades and South-West regions took part in this workshop. For 72 hours they were equipped with techniques for conducting interactive broadcasts, fact-checking and conflict-sensitive journalism (JsC).

While staying in Bobo-Dioulasso, the Minister of State, Minister of Communication, Culture, Arts and Tourism, Jean Emmanuel OUEDRAOGO went to encourage the participants for the interest found in this exchange offer. According to the Head of the Communications Department, doing journalism in a crisis context calls for re-examining our reflexes and above all calls for more responsibility. It is not a question of having a censor behind each journalist but that the journalist faced with the informativ
e raw material can keep the context in mind.

Jean Emmanuel OUEDRAOGO reiterated the wish for ‘a professional and responsible journalistic practice and above all in line with the challenges of the moment’.

After the Bobo-Dioulasso stage, another session will be held in Tenkodogo and will mobilize media actors from the Center-East, Center-South and East regions.

Source: Burkina Information Agency