High expectations for the training week

Below are some links to the participants’ first introductory postings, where they were supposed to introduce themselves and list their expectations for the training days to come.

Hilda Mhagama, reporter of business news and women’s affairs at Daily News, expects to get new knowledge on how to make use of the internet for investigating her stories. “In this new digital era it’s really important to get used to the internet as there is valuable information which is easily accessed and it’s also an easy way to get feedback from readers,” she concludes.

Imma Mbuguni, editor of the Majira newspaper, has pictured himself in the classroom and published an amusing introduction starting with what his father taught him of the importance of “moments” in life. From this training, he says that he expects to strengthen his investigative internet skills in background gathering.

Elias Msuya, investigative reporter at Mwananchi newspaper, has also published a picture and says he expects to improve his knowledge “for the sake of our national journalism”.

Here you can find a list of the three major expectations from the training by Athumani Shariff, journalism lecturer at Dar es Salaam School of Journalism.

And here’s the introduction of Joyce Shebe, news editor at Clouds FM, who believes that after three days she will have changed and will be ready to apply all her new knowledge as soon as she has completed the training.

For all other introductions, you can go directly to the blogs of the participants. Links to all training blogs have now been updated in the column on the right.