{"id":64959,"date":"2025-04-28T05:16:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64959"},"modified":"2025-04-28T05:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:16:57","slug":"journalists-tackle-conflict-reporting-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/28\/journalists-tackle-conflict-reporting-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Tackle Conflict Reporting in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalists from across Nigeria converged on Abuja for a powerful two day training aimed at reshaping how conflicts are reported.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by Search for Common Ground under its Promoting and Protecting Freedom of Religion or Belief project and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the workshop refreshed participants on the principles of common ground journalism and conflict sensitive reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Media Officer for the project, Katlong Dasat, stressed that journalists carry enormous influence and must tell stories that unite rather than divide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This project is about human rights, not religion. Everyone has the right to worship or believe freely,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>A toll free number with the short code 7224 was introduced to report violations of religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Dasat highlighted its impact, recalling how the line saved a life in Sokoto during a volatile marketplace dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Since the training series began nearly two years ago, Dasat noted, journalists have become more proactive in challenging headlines that could ignite violence and are increasingly using their platforms to promote peace.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative also involves social media influencers to correct harmful narratives and amplify messages of peace and human rights across Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 Journalists from across Nigeria converged on Abuja for a powerful two day training aimed at reshaping how conflicts are reported. Organised by Search for Common Ground under its Promoting and Protecting Freedom of Religion or Belief project and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the workshop refreshed participants on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64961,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64959\/revisions\/64961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}