The art of interviewing has been described as one of the most important skills a journalist needs to expand more on information, clarify facts and see things from different perspectives.
Making this known was the Convener of the Media Initiative and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Urban 10 Hub Limited, Miss Rosemary Egabor, at a One-day workshop on “The Art of Interviewing” which took place on Tuesday, 23 May at the Pan-Atlantic University. The workshop was organized by MHNG Network in partnership with the School of Media and Communications (SMC) of the Pan-Atlantic University.
Egabor, stated that the training was important because interviews are used to expand upon the basic “who, what, where, how, when and why” of newsgathering in whatever beat a journalist may cover, and it is the information gathered and dispersed that the public relies and acts on.
According to her, the workshop was a response to the need of the Nigerian media for capacity building to make it respond to global best practices and serve the needs of an emerging economy like Nigeria.
On his part, the Dean of the School of Media and Communication, Dr. Ikechukwu Obiaya, applauded the initiative. He indicated that it aligned very much with the school’s mission of providing training for media professionals to enable them pursue their calling of service to human cultures with a sense of creativity, skill, knowledge and values.
25 Journalists drawn from different media houses were nominated to attend the workshop, which was fully sponsored by the MHNG Network. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Obiaya and Dr. Joseph Bel-Molokwu.
The MHNG Network was founded by Urban 10 Hub Limited, one of Nigeria’s growing Public Relations (PR) companies, in 2016. The primary goal of the MHNG is to promote professionalism in the media through journalism network programmes that bring together professionals from across all media platforms to network, debate and engage with national and global issues that are of importance to the Nigerian media industry. MHNG network also uses its social media platforms/online community to promote media related activities and campaigns.
Finally, through its partnerships, the network seeks to build capacity and promote best practices in the media. The network believes that a strong media will ultimately result in a strong PR because PR is not all about story telling.
