{"id":260492,"date":"2024-12-04T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/04\/journalists-advised-to-take-their-security-serious-during-elections-coverage\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:28:42","slug":"journalists-advised-to-take-their-security-serious-during-elections-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/04\/journalists-advised-to-take-their-security-serious-during-elections-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists advised to take their security serious during elections coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Laudia Sawer\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tema, Dec. 04, GNA \u2013 Journalists scheduled to cover the 2024 general elections on Saturday have been advised to take their security seriously in order not to end up as casualties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Godfred Blay Gibbah, the General Secretary of the Ghana Photojournalists Network and a retired journalist, giving the advice, said, \u201cThink of your security in as much as you get the information and pictures. Don\u2019t become a casualty.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gibbah gave the advice during an election workshop for journalists of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) Tema Office in preparation towards coverage of the elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised: \u201cBe smart about your work; your life is most important. Whatever happens at the polling centre, you must be alive to report the story.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TM015-Journalists-Security-Pic-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-410642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TM015-Journalists-Security-Pic-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TM015-Journalists-Security-Pic-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TM015-Journalists-Security-Pic-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TM015-Journalists-Security-Pic-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gna.org.gh\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TM015-Journalists-Security-Pic-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>He reminded journalists to put on the appropriate attire and always have their accreditation tags with them for identification, noting that being properly identified makes it easy to create rapport with officials at the polling centre who would willingly provide the needed information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t introduce yourself properly to the presiding officers, it means you have opened yourself up for confrontation,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giving tips on how to get the best pictures and photos at a centre, he encouraged journalists to set their cameras ready, take pictures quickly, and get back to safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gibbah further urged them to take cover near the security and take pictures from the fringes during chaos and at volatile places, stressing that media personnel must always be on the alert in order not to fall victim to the election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He reminded the journalists to get to their scheduled centres on time to be able to capture activities from the onset of the elocutions instead of relying on others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laudia Sawer\u00a0 Tema, Dec. 04, GNA \u2013 Journalists scheduled to cover the 2024 general elections on Saturday have been advised to take their security seriously in order not to end up as casualties.\u00a0 Mr. Godfred Blay Gibbah, the General Secretary of the Ghana Photojournalists Network and a retired journalist, giving the advice, said, \u201cThink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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