Participants of the investigative internet training have made postings on what we did on Monday and how they felt about the first day of the training.
Sylvia Mwehozi, editor of Radio Mlimani, the student radio station at the University of Dar es Salaam School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has written a good summary of all what we did on Day 1. One of the lessons learnt was to choose proper search words and that by narrowing the search by last month, last week or last day, one will get different search results.
Hilda Mhagama, reporter from Daily News, says she learnt how to “utilize the search engine properly and in an easy way without wasting time”. She also mentions the narrowing of the search by date, month and country, which turned out to be a useful tip for finding out how the World Press Freedom Day was covered by the Tanzanian media last May.
Marc Nkwame, correspondent in Arusha of the same Daily News, explains how he made his way to the training venue by help of Google Maps, which has quite recently updated the streets of Dar es Salaam into the service.
Athumani Shariff, journalism lecturer at Dar es Salaam School of Journalism, says that he likes the fact that the training is pretty much practical – unlike many training events in Tanzania, which in his opinion often tend to concentrate more on theory than on practicing the topics in question.
Here’s then the short and compact summary of the first day by Elias Msuya, investigative reporter from Mwananchi. He also says he enjoys the discussions and assignments and learning by doing – though sometimes debates and practical rehearsals can also be time-consuming as there are lots of different opinions to express and, due to diverse backgrounds in computer use, all participants are not necessarily picking up new things in the same pace. Elias also posted a picture from class.
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