The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, Lagos has expressed the need to leverage the opportunities that come with the digital space while addressing its challenges to capture and share social realities at scale.
The essence is to develop the capacity of visual journalists to implement satirical, investigative and humorous cartoons.
Also, the aim is to equip stakeholders to tell compelling and impactful stories.
The project tends to help journalists understand and apply the knowledge of various social media tools to better engage on the issues that their works address.
The Zoom event is set to commemorate the 2023 International Day for Access to Information being set aside by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
It is structured under the Visual Realities Initiatives of the WSCIJ, launched in 2016.
The summit was themed: “Online Space, access to Information, and Capturing Social Realities,” with six panelists and over 63 participants in attendance.
A freelance photographer and Doctoral student at Cardiff University, UK, Nelly Ating, explained how journalists who are referred to as watchdogs pose a huge threat to politicians and elements of miscreants in government and power.
Photography simply brings visibility to social issues.
It is a double-edged sword that could be used for social change and panic selling.
Speaking at the Summit, Ating said: “Politically, that has been used widely to showcase political branding and image management.
“These political images utilise journalistic ethos.”
