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Wednesday, 01 August 2012 21:03 |
The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism (MICAT) has called for a new partnership between the Liberian media and the country’s promising corporate environment in a bid to increase access to capital as a means of generating improved quality and vibrancy.
Assistant Information Minister for Information Services, Albert K. Jaja, believes the Liberian media real task is no more about the frenzy of numbers but the quality and ethical proficiency they can generate as a fundamental player in concretizing the Liberian democratic space.
A MICAT release issued and signed by Mr. Jaja’s Special Assistant Thomas S. Korfel, noted that the recent signing of The Table Mountain Declaration and the new wave of media pluralism pioneered by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and the collective will of the Liberian People, have witnessed the multiplicity of news organs, but the issue of under-capitalization and access to funds remains a tall order.
Jaja, who has worked across the Country’s print and electronic media landscape, insists that the media like other sectors of the economy must take advantage of opportunities available calling on Eco-Bank Managing Director Kola Adeleke and Press Union of Liberia Secretary General Charles Cuffy to lead the effort, the release said.
Making Remarks at the sixth graduation ceremony of the Legacy Journalism Institute held at the Providence Baptist Church in Monrovia, Mr. Jaja stressed that emphasis on training and capacity building must now drive the demand for quality and standards across the Liberian Media.
According to the release, the Assistant Information Minister noted that media education must ensure that leadership and institutional management are firmly planted in their students who eventually could take managerial roles at media houses.
He asserted that the era of a single print house is now a thing of past with newspaper publishers inclined to take greater ownership of their publication and print exclusively, a classic case of economic and democratic reforms spear-headed by Liberia’s visionary Leader, President Ellen Johnson –Sirleaf, the release concluded. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 02 August 2012 13:17 |
