By Politico Staff Writer
In an effort to promote health and environmental journalism in Sierra Leone, Free Media Group, Publishers of Politico Newspaper as the recipient of Internews’ media grant under STOP Spillover project has today commenced an extensive three-day training of journalists across the country.
The training which brings together 50 students and professional journalists from across print, electronic and Journalism Schools in Freetown focuses on Zoonotic diseases with support from Internews’ Stop Spillover project.
This training is aimed at building the capacity of journalists to report on zoonotic diseases and the threat of their spillover with a One Health approach.
During the 3 days of the training, the Media students and professional journalists will learn from Scientists, experts on gender, environment, Health, Agriculture and the Media among others, existing threats of zoonotic disease such as Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone, the on-going efforts to minimize these threats and their impacts, and the ways to report about these effectively and responsibly.
The event will be held at the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone (CCSL) Hall, Freetown from Monday 28th August to Wednesday 30th August.
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