Journalists working in poor countries have more than just the standard role to inform. Here scribes need to focus on educating more than just conveying news. Most people continue being poor because they have no idea on how to utilize potential resources and locally available capitals.

If we could help the mass discovered means of getting themselves out of poverty, journalism as an independent fourth pillar would have achieved a lot.

Hamza Kalmera
Journalist
 

Small scale business ventures can rescue a lot of people from poverty if only they knew how to go about the trade and how to secure loans to boost their commercial activities. This is where as Journalists we should be in position to educate the mass on these matters including the importance of savings, something that most people here do not realize.

Neema Werema
Journalist
 

With more than 80 percent Tanzania living in rural areas and the fact that Agriculture which is the backbone of our economy is a mostly non-urban undertaking; local journalists’ role in combating poverty should be ample and well focused reporting on rural issues.

The problem we have here is that all media houses and journalists are based in town, serving less than 20 percent of the country population. It is high tome that local scribes take information to where it is needed most.

Rehema Lebaga
Journalist

 

EIt is not easy for local journalists to know how to combat poverty using their pens if they have no idea what poverty is. Media workers must be trained or taught to understand both poverty and economic issues in the country.

It will be useless for scribes to address issues that they are not well conversant with. To begin with, most local journalists are poor, with no facilities whatsoever and this in itself makes the mission to be even more difficult to accomplish.

Frank Haule
Journalist