Stop plagiarizing GNA stories

Stop plagiarizing GNA stories - cautions retired GNA Manager

Tamale, March 30, GNA - A retired Regional Manager of the Ghana News Agency on Friday cautioned media houses, especially FM radio stations, to desist from the practice of plagiarizing stories written by He said it was a bad practice, not healthy for the growth of journalism and that the habit was the result of the employment of untrained people.
Mr Alhassan Imoro, a one time the Northern Regional Manager of the on Friday.
The workshop was organised by the Tamale campus of the Institute of Local Government Studies (ILGS) as part of its capacity building for local governance.
Mr Imoro also condemned the practice of some journalists seeking favour before doing their work since that could compromise their integrity.
He said the salaries of journalists were nothing to write home about adding that until their salaries and conditions of service were improved it would be unrealistic to expect them to behave like angels.
Mr Imoro deplored the recent practice where some senior journalists had turned themselves into "politician-journalists" and move from either one television or radio station to another defending one political party or the other.
"One can be of service to his nation by either choosing to be a journalist or a politician and not by combining both" he said, adding that by combining the two those senior journalists had lost the confidence of the people and had become objects of suspicion and scorn.
Journalists at the workshop also registered their displeasure at the way editors of some of the papers twisted stories their reporters wrote, particularly on conflict situations in the Northern Region, giving such stories alarming banner headlines.
They were of the view that such banner headlines were sometimes intentionally given to sell their papers and by that they painted the Northern Region as a place of conflict.