Premium Times Academy, the capacity building arm of Premium Times Services Limited, has completed a two-day training of journalists from various media outlets in the country on business, economy and financial reporting.
Held in Lagos between 26 and 27 November, the programme took participants through reporting areas like monetary policy tools and indicators, recent reforms at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria’s economic system, open source data, fact-checking and verification tools, among others.
The initiative was delivered by Premium Times Academy with support from the CBN, and focused on improving the skills of Nigerian journalists in ethical, data-driven and impactful reporting.
Facilitators ranged from financial advisors and consultants to CBN officials and top media practitioners.
The Abuja version of the training was held two weeks earlier. A total of 25 journalists were trained in the course of the two-day programme.
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