Ms. Joan Agyekum Nsowah, Programme Officer for Communication and Information at the UNESCO Commission in Ghana, observed that misinformation, misrepresentation and disinformation were threats to the development of journalism in the country.
She said stakeholders including the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and UNESCO were committed to building the capacity of journalists to identify and stop these threats.
Ms. Nsowah made the observation at a capacity building training workshop for media practitioners on Monday in Techiman, Bono East Region.
The two-day training organized by the UNESCO Commission in Ghana in collaboration with the GJA was attended by 49 selected professionals, including information officers from the four municipalities and seven districts of the region.
Focusing on the fight against misinformation, the training aimed at improving the capacity of local media practitioners to produce and disseminate factual and accurate information in order not to mislead society and to ensure community development.
The aim was to improve on previous trainings in order to reach marginalized regions and areas that have been declared as election fraud hot spots.
Participants discussed topics such as "steps to identify information disorder", "misinformation" and "fact checking tools".
GNL
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