JOURNALISTS have been urged to take advantage of Information, Communication Technology (ICT) to improve on the standards of journalism and venture into on-line journalism.
The Vice-President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Mr Affail Monney, who made the appeal, said it was important for media houses to prioritise and intensify efforts at catching up with the global communication revolution to prevent them from swimming against the tide in the future.
He was speaking at the launch of the Ghana Business News (GBN) website in Accra, which was on the theme: "Online Journalism: Putting Ghana on the Global Platform".
Mr Monney said the flipside of the digital revolution had been replete with chilling and heart-breaking stories and underlined the need for the infusion of ethical circumspection and the practise of responsible journalism in the on-line business.
Mr Monney was of no doubt that the GBN.com would come out with the right professional meal to satisfy all who patronised it.
The Managing Online Editor of the GBN, Mr Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, said the GBN.com was a pacesetter in online journalism.
He said the aim of the GBN was to practise journalism of the best quality, which could match international standards.
He added that although the site had been in operation only for a year, it had made remarkable impacts.
Mr Dogbevi said the website had become the number one business news source in Ghana, according to the rankings by the world's number one search engine, Google.
He said journalism had long been held as the Fourth Estate of the Realm because of its prestigious position, but the importance of the media was being undermined by the activities of some journalists.
"Journalism in Ghana appears to have reduced to a pedestrian vocation that is open for mass participation as though there are no values guiding the practice,” he noted.
The Chairperson of Editors Forum Ghana, Ms Ajoa Yeboah-Afari, officially launched the website and advised the management of the GBN to ensure that pictures used were accompanied by captions to explain them.
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