DILI, 4 may 2022 (TATOLI)- Unesco, Academic, and Media group conducted a dialogue to prevent online harassment and journalist under pressure on digitalization through a dialogue.
The seminar is aimed to commemorate world press freedom day which was organized with the theme “online harassment” of journalism in the digitization era.
UNTL Deputy Department of Social Communication, Dulce Martins said to prevent the threat of the digitalization era journalists need to improve their quality of performance.
This dialogue is made to ensure quality coverage. It is most important to provide journalists with training to enhance their knowledge.
It also helps the journalist to use online in the digitalization area. The training method focuses on controlling good informatics quality,” said Dulce Martins in his explanation at the seminar debate, in Delta Nova Dili, this Tuesday.
In addition, the CEO of STL Media Group, Salvador J.X Soares informed that this era of digitalization, also poses a threat to newspaper distribution, because social media is a reference for the public.
“We have to change our present and past perspectives because in the past the velocity was more important compared to present, it is not the main factor, we will fail if we compete with social media, therefore, people use social media as the main source,” explained Salvador Soares.
According to Soares, to improve the quality, the demand for professional journalists must be able to write news in newspapers, television, online, and radio.
“What we are currently trying to implement in STL, journalists must know about writing news, newspapers, television, online and radio, this is are the factors that require for the journalists,” he said.
He added that in the digitalization era, a lot of information is obtained by the public, thus, it is important to prevent hoaxes, also media agencies should maintain credibility in delivering news.
Meanwhile, Consultant CI unit- Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) from the Jakarta office, Hesthi Murthi explained that the changing digital development poses a threat not only to journalists and the media but also to the public in accessing information.
“Based on the 2021 and 2022 data launched by UNESCO, the forms of threats to journalists are very diverse and quite worrying,” Hesthi explained via video call from Jakarta.
He added that this surveillance is experienced by many journalists in various countries, this surveillance case involves the state because this should be used to defend the interests of the state and it is used to spy on activists in groups including journalists who are quite critical of the government.
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