By Joseph Joy

Mass Communication students have been urged to emulate practitioners with track records as role models as they aspire to practice the profession after leaving school.

The Rector, Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) Enugu, Professor Gozie Ogbodo gave the advice in an interview with ESUT Monitor recently.

Speaking on the backdrop of the retirement of the Zonal Deputy Director of Programmes, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Enugu South-East Zone, Mr Gregory Odiakosa recently, Prof Ogbodo charged Mass Communication Students to look at gentlemen who have excelled in the profession to emulate and imbibe qualities that would set them apart from others.

“I would tell media practitioners, including students who are studying Mass Communication, they should look at gentlemen and women who have excelled in the field and watch them and emulate them as their role models. Because there are basic qualities that you would identify in all of these professionals – get disciplined, integrity, hardwork.

“These are virtues journalists, young media practitioners must begin to emulate. And if you don’t have it, you would never ever end up like them. So, I encourage young people to identify role models in the profession and look at their lifestyles, work ethics, discipline, and you would now see what makes the difference between the good and the bad in any profession,” he said.

Gregory Odiakosa retired from FRCN as Deputy Director, South East Zone earlier this year after 35 years in service.

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By Amaechi Agbo

The Rector, Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Prof Gozie Ogbodo has described the institute as the incubation hub that feeds media houses in Nigeria with trained graduates.

Prof Ogbodo who stated this in a recent media interaction, noted that the Department of Mass Communication in the institution is renowned for producing quality graduates who had gone ahead to excel in the media industry both nationally and globally.

“What IMT is doing as an institute which is very renowned in Mass Communication and has produced very reputable nationally and internationally acclaimed professionals in media, is that we are the incubation institute which is feeding many of the media agencies in Nigeria.

“The work we are doing here is benefiting agencies like FRCN, AIT, Arise News, The Guardian, Punch, and all that. We believe that with their continued support, we would definitely have a strong partnership which would help our students become best graduates and come out with better professions in the media field. So, the work we are doing no doubt complements each of them,” he stated.

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