The publisher of Newspeak Magazine, Mr Bisi Oladele, has called on online media operators to collaborate to tackle the challenges of fake news in the country.
Oladele made the call on Thursday while delivering a lecture at the launch of DailyOpen News, an online media, in Ibadan.
The lecture is titled “Role of Online News Publishing and National Development.”
Oladele posited that online news publishing had a lot of benefits which could be accessed through collaboration and regulations.
According to him, the public gets fed with fake news by online news operators who think only of their business survival to the detriment of the country’s safety and development.
He said that online news publishing, as a critical pillar in Nigeria, was not doing enough due to the weak gatekeeping aspect of journalism.
“Digital news publishing faces some challenges in Nigeria because professionalism is endangered.
“There is also the lack of trust, half-truth publication, no in-depth content, and a lack of investigation, among others.
“Online media platforms must play their roles professionally to tackle these challenges for us to have a society we all desire.
“Government needs to come up with specific regulations because cybersecurity can’t regulate the operations of online news media,” he said.
He, therefore, called on operators to collaborate to promote professionalism and build trust to make the business survive.
According to him, operating a one-man show isn’t an easy task.
“The era of working in isolation is gone in online news publishing; it will be difficult to survive in the business.
“No matter how brilliant you are, collaboration will encourage survival,” Oladele said.
He commended DailyOpen News for assembling a group of professionals to manage the platform.
Mr Seye Ojo, one of the news platform’s consultants, said it was established to sanitise the sector, while providing Nigeria and the world at large with credible news.
Source: NAN
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