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By Victor Adeoti
Osogbo, Sept. 27, 2016 (NAN) Prof. Dayo Alao, the Vice Chancellor of Adeleke University, Ede, has called for a better salary package for journalists in the country.
Alao, who made this call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Osogbo, said it was painful that journalists were being treated poorly by their employers.
The former Chairman of Daily Times, said journalists should not be treated as second class citizens but as professionals.
He urged the national body of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) to take a strong position against media organisations owing their workers salaries.
He said that it was unfair for employers in the media to deny reporters their entitlements.
“There are some media organisations that tell their reporters that their Identity Card is their meal ticket.
“This is very insulting and unprofessional. Journalists, who always risk their life in getting stories should be treated with dignity by regularly paying their salaries and other allowances,” he said.
The VC also urged NUJ to fight against quackery in the profession.
He noted that the number of newspapers in the country was reducing on a daily basis and that technology had taken over the role of traditional journalism.
“The new social media is taking over the role of information dissemination due to its fastness but newspaper will continue to maintain its permanent reverence.
“Everyday, newspaper will continue to be threatened by the new media, and that is why modernity should also feature in the print media.
“The more we have the new media, the more jobs that will be fading away”.
Alao lauded the media for its role in information dissemination. (NAN)
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Edited by Tola okinbaloye
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