Catholic Radio Network or CRN in partnership with Norwegian People’s Aid or NPA has started two-day training in Juba for its news editors of seven stations.
The training aims at improving the performance of editors for effective, well improved news and differentiates between radio and website news stories.
It will also improve CRN use of digital platforms.
In her opening session, CRN Director, Mary Ajith, welcomed the journalists and expressed sadness over the death of two Catholic nuns.
“Thank you for coming over this morning for the CRN training of editors. These editors are drawn from all over the catholic radios. I welcome you to juba; I have not been feeling well also double with the recent incident of the lost of our Catholic Nuns reverent sisters of the Catholic Church who were shot on Monday on Nimule road. It is a sad incident”, she said.
Ajith reiterates on the importance of improving the quality of CRN’s news.
“This training is a special program for us because as the CRN editors if you see our pillars, number one is the information and information is the news that we share. Many people know us across the region and all over because of the news. The followers we have on CRN website are global so that means we have to continue improving on the quality of our news to meet the demands of our readers and because of that we planned for this training to refresh our minds as editors, to improve on the news stories because we do not only relay on the religious affair but we do also do peace building, political affairs, economics and almost all the areas that are needed for the news fit. We need pictures for the website if you put images to the story it tells more”, she noted.
Meanwhile Norwegian People’s Aid or NPA Program Manager Rebecca Nyamori says her organization will continue to partner with CRN.
“Norwegian People’s Aid has worked with CRN in supporting various stations and also peace building at the grass root level we are glad to see people coming from around the country, our priority as the people of NPA for the people of South Sudan under media rights is that, everybody get access to information and balanced information. So am glad that CRN is doing a lot to improve the editing to improve the quality of the information”.
The speakers spoke during the opening session of editors’ training in Juba.
The two-day CRN editors training is expected to conclude on Thursday.