Confab to modernise African news agencies opens in Rabat
By Muhammad Suleiman Tola
Rabat (Morocco), March 26, 2018 (NAN) Journalists from Nigeria and seven other countries commenced deliberations in Rabat, Morocco on Monday on ways to revolutionise the operations of African news agencies.
Welcoming the participants, the Director-General of the Morocco Agence Press (MAP), Mr Khalil Idrissi, charged African news agencies to fashion out ways to ward off the challenges posed by the social media.
Idrissi, represented by the Regional Manager of the agency in Rabat, Mr Rashid Mamouni, noted that news agencies were threatened daily by the social media worldwide.
According to him, the challenges and threats posed by the social media are reducing news agencies and the traditional media to irrelevance.
He advised news agencies to adopt strategies to overcome the challenges to increase their visibility and relevance in society.
The two-day training, facilitated by MAP is also a gathering of the Alliance of Mediterranean News Agencies.
The meeting is being anchored by two young digital media entrepreneurs, Abderrahman Khomsi and Soufiane Moudden.
They are scheduled to make presentations on developing social media strategies and building social media strategies through trends watching as well as managing and growing a community.
Other issues to be discussed at the forum include appraising the tools to efficient reporting and performance monitoring as well as the keys to efficient publishing.
The participants are drawn from Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Cote D’Ivoire, Liberia, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt.
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Edited by Silas Nwoha