User:Olivier Ngabirano/sandbox/Biography ,OLIVIER NGABIRANO

Olivier Ngabirano born at Gicumbi,former Byumba province ,May ,09th 1987, media career started at the National University of Rwanda in 2010, when he worked with the university radio, Salus as a trainee journalist. Five years after, he is a News Chief Editor at TV One and at its sister radio station, Radio One.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

He started school at Rumasi Primary School, in Tanzania, before joining Rushaki Primary School in Gicumbi, Rwanda. For his secondary education he enrolled at College de Rushaki for O-level, and College de Rebero for A-level, from where he joined the National University of Rwanda to study journalism and communication. In his childhood he felt that he had a journalistic talent, the reason he chose media-related subjects right from A-level. Secondly, a part from informing, educating and entertaining people, journalists also play a big role in advocating for people who face injustice, which is something he consider to be inhuman. At the beginning of 2012, he left Radio Salus and joined Radio One, which was at the time new. Later the parent company launched a TV station, which he is currently working with as well as the radio. As an editor, in his daily working time, he deals with editing both radio and TV scripts. “Scripts for any program are written in a very different way for the two areas of electronic communication. A TV play would have a far different script from one written for Radio”said Olivier, in an interview with the newtimes. THE GOOD AND BAD SIDE OF HIS JOB A good and professional journalist always fights to balance a story with some government officials, individuals as well as businessmen and someone else. With this job, Olivier said there are some people who appreciate the story because it has represented their good reputation and others who deflate the story as it has revealed their mistakes that are hidden. ADVICE TO FELLOW MEDIA PRACTITIONERS

He advises his fellow journalists to maintain professionalism and to respect ethics and news values.