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Speaker: I work with the River State Television. I'm the director of News and Parents of N.R. I also have one hour live program for India to India. The lesson I wish I had learned earlier being around women.
Speaker: lesson i wish i have learned a yes around getting connected with other people and knowing that this journalism work goes beyond just working in the newsroom. The reason why say so is I've been part of our programmes in countries and in fact with other programmes.
Speaker: So it has opened my mind to the things I can do. With the knowledge I've learned attending our conference, there many women in It has given me the confidence that I can do much more than I thought I could do.
Speaker: Being innovative.
Speaker: Because we know that every year we have new things coming up, we have the, and now, we have the, and now. Because when we started there was no Facebook, there was no Instagram. And today we have all this. So how do you cook?
Speaker: You need to move on trend. That is how can. been ready not have iphones you have kind of We only way you can stay afloat. My name is quite corporation.
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Speaker: One thing i have learnt that I wish I knew 30 years ago when I started it is the fact that I could have converted my skills into products and made money from them.
Speaker: I really hoped that I knew that and coming to Hour 24 has opened me up to a new horizon of possibilities. and I'm going back, not just in talking to other women journalists on why they should take steps to avoid violence in wrong places, but the fact that we can actually create products from our skills and get to have multiple streams of income so that we do not depend on our employers for the remuneration that will keep us going as journalists.
Speaker: I will hold my skills. Before i came here, i had negative thoughts around the use of AI because I had those beliefs that would make me lazy. But now that I'm here and listening to certain conversations, I'm definitely going to rejig my lifestyle and intentionally ensure that going forward, everything I do, I'm looking at the public good and I'm also looking at the business side it.
Speaker: why then peace My name is Angela
Speaker: I'm a journalist, but right now I'm also a media owner. I operate a radio station called 91.1 FM. It's the we are we have a lot of young and young women who work with us at the same time.
Speaker: How we stay relevant, or I in particular, how stay relevant in an industry that is causing new changing is by updating my skills, even the people who work with us at this station, ensuring that organise workshops, we organise trainings, and we follow up on what is happening, what is trending in the media environment, new things and technology, and we get everyone hack that physicalmate a foingology is into just to in which we operate, how education is also important and how to go out there and network with people of like mind on how to improve the
Speaker: The advice of young journalists working in this challenging environment is and Embrace the challenge, but don't beat yourself in hamstring. Because as we have always been told, you report the news, you don't allow yourself to become a fit. So embrace the challenge. See it as an opportunity to improve your skills, your knowledge, to do something better than you are already doing it. And at the end of every day, ask yourself, have I earned my pay for Have I impacted anyone today? And if you're happy with your answer, then that means what you're doing in Nigeria.
Speaker: My name is Riti Abreu Yusuf. I'm a freelance broadcast journalist and I also work with Nigeria Info 99.3. I'm from Lagos, Nigeria.
Speaker: Absolutely nothing. If I could go back to the beginning of my career, I will do nothing differently. I feel like done everything as I should have done
Speaker: it. The advice I give young journalists working in challenging environments is to work with the challenge, own it.
Speaker: And that's the only way you can navigate your way around it because If you try to avoid the challenge, then you effectively get left out of it and therefore you're then not not querying, you're not shaping.
