Ouagadougou: The General Directorate of Communication and Media, in collaboration with UNICEF, is organizing a training session on journalistic practices on July 3 and 4, 2024 for the benefit of students in Ouahigouya. The objective is to fight against misinformation and to boost the school newspapers of different establishments.Access to the internet and media by students promotes self-expression. However, students are still at greater risk of being exposed to various forms of disinformation, propaganda and radical and violent messages.It is in this sense that the General Directorate of Communication and Media and its partner UNICEF are organizing training sessions on journalistic practices for the benefit of students in secondary schools in Burkina Faso.The team, led by the general director, stayed on July 3 and 4 in the city of Naaba Kango.For the Director General of Communication and Media, Yirmalè Frédéric Somé, 'this training session aims to introduce students from establishments in the city of Ouahigouya to journalistic techniques and practices; in addition, the training will allow them to develop their critical thinking and discernment, a first in the Northern region. After this training, we hope that participants will be able to revitalize the school newspapers in the different establishments. »For forty-eight hours, these students from different establishments such as the Yamwaya high school, the Naaba Kango regional vocational high school, and the Ouahigouya Municipal high school were introduced in theory and in real practice to journalistic genres such as reporting, interviews , the brief and the report.'This training is welcome because firstly we will be introduced to journalistic writing and secondly, it will allow us to improve our level. I thank the organizers and I invite all my comrades to be diligent and follow the training carefully because it is a chance that we have had and we must take advantage of it to learn more about this noble profession,' confided Faidatou Savadogo, studen t in 1st D class at the Municipal high school of Ouahigouya.The UNICEF-funded training session covers four regions of Burkina Faso: the East, Sahel, Center-North and North regions.Source: Burkina Information Agency