CAPACITY BUILDING SERIES: POLARIS BANK DAZED JOURNALISTS WITH AI AND SOCIAL MEDIA “APPTITUDE” SKILLS

Mr Abayomi Adisa receiving commendation gift from team of Polaris management

Through its series of modern skills pursuits for effective news reportage and upscale of journalist’s social media engagement, Polaris bank management, one of the top notch financial service providers in Nigeria in its usual efforts to support balanced Media news projection organized a journalist training tagged: “Empowering journalists in the digital age: storytelling, tools and transmission.” the programme aims at effective and modern day approaches to social media inclusions in information dispensing.

The event in its 12th edition was filled with innovative means of reporting of news and how journalists can up their Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills in analysing and utilizing tools available for modern-day methodologies.

The training witnesses journalists in both physical and Virtual attendance where the interactive mode of the training avails swift understanding of how news and social media engagements can be more effective and result oriented.

Mr Taiwo Obe receiving gift from Polaris team 

Mr Taiwo Obe,one of the facilitator and Director, Journalism Clinic analyses tremendous benefits of using AI applications tools termed “APPTITUDE” to simplify reportage while Abayomi Adisa,senior BBC journalist and consultant explained how journalists should adopt using social media technicalities to upscale news and engagements for consumptive readership and social-media engagement.

Mr Rasheed Abolarinwa, Polaris bank bank’s Group Head, Brand Management and Corporate Communication, disclosed the bank interest to constant growth of the media practitioners inform its continuos investment to the forth realm of the estate,promised the bank would not relent in the golden pursuit to have a better society with sound and improved news reportage.