The Kampong Chhnang provincial information department and the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT) conducted an August 10 training session on ethics and freedom of the press for journalists.
The event was held on the information department premises.
The Ministry of Information said that a total of 66 participants, 17 of them women, attended the session. 22 of them were provincial information department officials, 36 were journalists and eight came from NGOs.
On behalf of Kampong Chhnang provincial governor Sun Sovannarith, Mam Chhoeum, director of the information department, reminded the assembled attendees that they needed to study harder in order to understand how to report peaceful, non-violent, professional news stories and apply professional ethics to the careers. In this way, they could use the freedom of the press to help people – and wider society – to live in harmony.
Sok Meas, ACT representative, explained that the session aimed to enable the journalists to write and disseminate information peacefully and to play their part in resolving conflicts and de-escalating violence at the grass roots level in the community.
The information ministry said the attendees of the course had all learned how to report in a peaceful, non-violent, non-confrontational, professional way.
