The Secretary-General of the National Journalists’ Union (SNJ), Faruco Sadique, has urged local committees to foster a healthy environment within newsrooms and facilitate the sharing of experiences to uphold the ethics and professionalism of the journalistic class. His remarks were made today in Quelimane during a seminar aimed at inducting new members of local committees into the Association’s Statutes and the Communications and Broadcasting Law.
Sadique emphasised the importance of these committees as platforms for experienced journalists to mentor their less experienced counterparts on ethical practices and the challenges facing the profession. He noted that creating a collaborative atmosphere among employees and management is essential for ensuring that both individual and collective employment contracts are respected.
He further highlighted the prevalence of precarious contracts and, in many instances, unpaid work as continuing challenges that the journalism sector must address in order to enhance the status of the profession.
