The President of the University of Liberia (UL) Rev. Dr. Julius Julukon Sarwolo Nelson, Jr., has committed the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the university to train 250 freelance and rural journalists in legal provisions, emphasizing that freedom of expression and the press is a right given to all.

Dr. Nelson made the commitment on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 in the Auditorium of the university’s Capitol Hill Campus when he delivered the keynote address at the program hosted by the Press Union of Liberia on the implementation of the project: “Strengthening Independent Media and Freedom of Information in Liberia.”

“For our part at the University of Liberia, the Department of Communication and Media Studies will develop a training manual on the legal know-how, personal safety, and security, train beneficiaries or journalists in the legal know-how, personal safety, and security, to ensure safety when reporting from dangerous zones, and train 250 freelance and rural journalists in legal provisions as enshrined in Article 15 of the Liberian Constitution,” he said.