UNIVERSITY students in mass communications/journalism can gain much from experienced media people themselves, particularly those who keep to responsible journalism. Universities offering these courses would do society a great service, to the whole world, in fact, to hone these future media practitioners stick to genuine journalism tenets. Universities should strive to have their students learn from multi-awarded journalists.

Journalism’s purpose is providing people with verified information, that is, useful to decision-making. The value of journalism is from its very purpose — to provide people not just with the 5 Ws (the what, who, where, when and why) and 1H (How) but that these Ws and H have been faithfully verified. As a source puts it, journalism as a “discipline of verification” is “not just the facts,” but also the “truth about the facts.”

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