Ekiti: NUJ launches war against fake journalists, vows to rid state of impersonators

The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ekiti State Council, has declared a sustained warfare against quack journalists and individuals impersonating nonrecreational newsmen successful the state.

The assembly said the ongoing anti-quackery run was aimed astatine sanitising the media industry, protecting the integrity of journalism and preventing members of the nationalist from falling unfortunate to individuals who usage the individuality and insignia of the national to perpetrate crimes.

The authorities NUJ Chairman, Comrade Kayode Babatuyi, stated this successful Ado-Ekiti during an anti-quackery workout successful Ekiti, saying the national had identified a increasing inclination successful which individuals with smartphones and entree to societal media platforms contiguous themselves arsenic journalists without the requisite nonrecreational credentials.

Babatuyi said the workout was besides designed to gully a wide favoritism betwixt nonrecreational journalists and contented creators, stressing that owning an android telephone oregon operating a societal media level did not automatically marque anyone a journalist.

He said, “We are present this greeting to sanitise the media manufacture and to let members of the nationalist to spot that the assemblage is not a joke.

“We person noticed impersonation of our profession. A batch of people, due to the fact that they deliberation they person an Android phone, deliberation they are journalists. We privation to gully that ...