DUBAWA, a West African independent verification and fact-checking hub has organized a two day digital skills and fact-checking training for some selected media practitioners in the Eastern region.
The training workshop was part of a deliberate effort of Dubawa and its associated organizations to provide media practitioners the necessary skills and tools before, during, and after the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The beneficiary Journalists were taken through fact-checking techniques and how to deploy Google tools for general reporting.
Participants were charged to depart from just reporting on matters to verify information which is one of the cardinal principles of journalism in an effort to help promote good governance and accountability.
Experts, through the capacity-building, impacted knowledge to the journalists.
DUBAWA is dedicated to promoting truth and verification within not only Ghanaian media ecosystem but the West Africa sub-region.
Dubawa’s mission statement is to institute a culture of truth and verification in public discourse and journalism through strategic partnerships between the media, government, civil society organizations, technology giants and the public.
Dubawa has a presence in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Solomon Nartey
