Accuracy is vital to our journalism

It is encouraging to note that a new crop of journalists has been infused into the media industry while the old graduate into their mentors as editors and the more adventurous taking up new careers in the public relations and marketing fields. Interesting, encouraging and indeed that is the way it should be.

However, the nation's new crop of media practitioners, much more often than not, is just left to explore their ways into the profession when they enter the newsrooms. Very little, if not none in terms of training goes into shaping the new and aspiring journalists in the media houses of Botswana regardless of their flowery academic qualifications. The art of journalism cannot be mastered over night - there should be an induction process.