Editors Celebrate World News Day Today

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) is joining the planetary assemblage contiguous to observe the World News Day, a planetary inaugural to item the captious relation of fact-based journalism successful societies.

A connection from the NGE president, Eze Anaba, said the Guild reaffirmed committedness to promoting precocious standards of editorial enactment and protecting property freedom.

“We salute journalists successful Nigeria and worldwide who enactment tirelessly to bring america the information arsenic we recommit to our ngo of promoting prime journalism and protecting the rights of journalists to run freely.

“As we observe World News Day, we enactment the challenges journalism arsenic a assemblage faces successful Nigeria, astir particularly the increasing effort to suppress property state and state of expression.

“We volition ever basal steadfast to support the rights of journalists, beforehand precocious ethical modular successful our noble profession, and defy immoderate move, successful immoderate means, to harass and intimate journalists arsenic good arsenic impede journalism,” the connection said.

It urged journalists to shun fake news, misinformation, disinformation and propaganda, but uphold the canons of journalism, including accuracy, fairness, objectivity and facts.
The Guild besides urged authorities astatine each levels and individuals to halt utilizing repressive laws, including Cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention, etc) Act, to harass and intimidate journalists.

It alternatively urged the authorities to ever respect the Freedom of Information Act by freely providing journalists immoderate requested accusation and, therefore, aligning itself with the United Nations Universal Day for Access to Information.

The NGE besides urged Nigerians to take truth, facts, and journalism, bearing successful caput that fact-based journalism is the instauration of a steadfast democracy. Fact-based journalism provides citizens with close and reliable information, enabling them to marque informed decisions.

“We besides impulse Nigerians to basal with journalists who look challenges successful their pursuit of information arsenic immoderate occurrence successful gagging the media would enactment successful jeopardy ideology and state of expression,” Anaba added.