Nairobi, 19 August, 2019 / 9:55 pm (ACI Africa).
A Kenyan nun has challenged Catholic journalist across the African continent to work toward verifying stories they write about and not be part of “armchair journalism.”
“Resist from arm chair journalism, resist from fake news, report the truth and communicate Christ,” Sr. Prof. Agnes Lucy Lando made the challenge Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya during the official launch of the Association for Catholic Information in Africa (ACI Africa).
“I am challenging the Catholic journalists and the ACI-Africa team for ethical, objective and truthful reporting,” Sr. Lando told hundreds of guests who turned up August 17 for the official inauguration of the latest media initiative of EWTN Global Catholic Network, ACI Africa.
Sr. Lando who lectures at Nairobi-based Daystar University and represents Africa on the Board of the International Communication Association (ICA) was speaking on behalf of religious communicators in academia.
Addressing lamentations about negative reports on Africa, the communication professor encouraged ACI Africa to play a leading role in giving media visibility to the true image of the Catholic Church in various linguistic regions of Africa, a goal that could be achieved by ACI Africa journalists being part of scholarly associations where evidenced reporting is practiced.
