The Director of the Information Services Department (ISD), Mr Charles Wereko, has urged officers of the Department to constantly write news stories and feature articles for the Department’s flagship magazine, Ghana Today, and two news websites — www.isd.gov.gh and www.ghanatoday.gov.gh to keep Ghanaians abreast of government’s development agenda.
He said it was important to gratify readers’ taste for new and authentic information by constantly updating the websites with up to date information to direct traffic to the websites.
He added that one of the core mandates of the Department is to inform the public with authentic news about happenings in the country, especially developments in the hinterlands, saying it is for that reason that ISD has offices in all the 260 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Offices in Ghana.
He said if the Department’s news outlets continue to publish dead news the general public would have a low image of the Department and its staff because the Department is considered as one of the major government’s communications organisation.
Mr. Wereko made these remarks at a three-day training workshop for some selected officers of the Department in Accra to equip them with modern writing skills.
He hinted that the Department would organise such training workshops at every quarter to enable all staff to participate in the training to enhance their writing competencies so that they could contribute their quota not only to the Department’s news outlets but other state and private media institutions.
The training was facilitated by Major Don-Chebe (Rtd), Former President, IPR Ghana and Mr Perry Ofosu, former Vice President, IPR Ghana and a former Registrar of the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
Ishmael Batoma, ISD
