Nigeria: Experts Call for Improved Media Freedom in Nigeria allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Scores of Nigerian journalists gathered this week in Abuja to discuss the state of press freedom in the country and the ethical codes of conduct that guide their practice at a three-day training event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Foundation.
The training, facilitated by leading media, academic, legal and civil society professionals, saw intensive discussion around laws hindering press freedom; the use of defamation as a tool of suppressing press freedom; public perception of media and press freedom as well as guiding principles of code of conduct and code of ethics for Nigerian journalists. The training drew participants from the print, online and broadcast media across the six geo-political zones of the country.