What is the NLNG Change your story 2023 all about? Here is it..

The NLNG Change your story 2023 workshop is aimed at empowering journalists and communicators with digital skills to produce people oriented reporting.

The workshop equips participants with the ability to use digital tools to tell stories that are focused on the audience. 

The role of NLNG Change Your Story in digital journalism is to provide training and support to journalists and communicators to enable them to produce high-quality digital content that engages their audience. 

 workshop is designed to help journalists and communicators tell their stories digitally and to improve their skills in digital journalism. 

By providing training and support, NLNG Change Your Story is helping to promote the use of digital tools and techniques in journalism, which is becoming increasingly important in today’s media landscape. 

The 2023 workshop is part of a broader effort to promote digital storytelling and to encourage the marriage between journalism and design. 

Some of the Participants at the justconcluded NLNG Change your story 2023 narrated what the event was all about and expressed their gratitude for the opportunity to improve their digital skills and produce people-oriented reporting

One of the participant at the just concluded NLNG Change your story, Ms Grace Ike who is a reporter, communication expert and editor expressed happiness over the outcome of the three day training workshop. 

She said “I am so glad I am part of the those who attended the 2023 NLNG Change your story workshop, today as I speak with you, I can design, shoot and edit with my mobile phone using my tool kit taught by Mr Dan Mason.

” Before now I never knew mobile editing existed, all I do is to work with my laptop at my convince but today the story is different because mobile and multimedia journalism is the real thing”

” So i can make bold to say, I am now a mobile content creator, an editor, and on air personality” I am fulfilled, it was interesting and top notch. 

” I look forward to more partnership with NLNG Change your story” she added

Oredola Adeola is an Editor with Energy Day. He expressed their gratitude for the opportunity to improve their digital skills and produce people-oriented reporting. 

He said ” the take home lesson is that I have learnt new ways of doing my stories and carrying out my assignments and task so u want to thank NLNG for this opportunity for making me a better person and I am promising that in the next six months there will be testimonies from my end “

Another participant Rose Moses also described the event as too notch. She said” I have learnt alot especially in area of casting of headlines by using the app Peplexity, that was great and fantastic”
“the Canva was also good, I will put alot of time learning that because I didn’t really have very strong grip of it but generally it was a very fantastic program” she said 

Also Prince Okafor was an attendee, a journalist with one of the major National Dailies said “the training will drive people to technology in a new fashion so journalists this is the new technology to be able out work seamless” 
Overall the participants thanked the Organizers of the Journalism Clinic, Mr Taiwo Obe and Mr Dan Mason for a job well done and looked forward to more working relationship with the communication experts. 
They also thanked the funders, NLNG Change Your Story 2023 for a major role taken in empowering journalists to take up future challenges in a digital world while calling in other well corporate organizations to emulate the giant steps taken by NLNG CHANGE YOUR STORY 2023. 
The facilitators and funders  of the NLNG Change your story 2023 urged participants to use the training to work towards personal improvement noting that the exercise will afford Individuals the opportunity to go digital so as to be at par with the International community. 

Welcoming participants to the training, Dan Mason an international expert on digital data journalism earlier noted that the three-day practical training would help journalists and communicators master new digital skills and show them how to approach storytelling from a different angle that drives positive change.
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Mason, urged the participants to build their profile on social media as a communication professional at the heart of the network. 

“Journalists are influencers because that is their job. You need to go on social media platforms and start building that network to suit your beats.

The Coordinator, Journalism Clinic, Taiwo Obe, speaking to journalists urged participants to put all they gave learnt into practice. 

He said “practice, practice, practice. 

“In this journalism business, we must practice to be relevant. He added

The Journalism Clinic was founded by Taiwo Obe, better known as T.O, a Commonwealth Professional Fellow and Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors. He also founded in 2011 the EverythingJournalism Group on the professional network, LinkedIn, to promote best practices in journalism. He teaches at The Journalism Clinic and facilitates workshops on digital storytelling at the School of Media and Communication, Pan Atlantic University. To show rather than tell, Obe also practises what he teaches.