Thursday, October 29, 2009

Linking up to the sources

Today we’ve done even some more searching for facts and backgrounds to feature stories, starting with how to find contacts, phone numbers or email addresses of local and international organizations and institutions. (Searching for the phone number of Barack Obama seemed to have been quite fun... Of course, you’d have to go to the White House website first and find any contact from there.)

We also searched for info for checking some facts, like editors are often doing after receiving stories from their reporters. Participants will surely remember for ever in which year Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize, and probably also how her name is correctly spelt.

Closer to the end of the day, we made a search on how many medals African countries won in the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin last summer, and also which African, American and Asian countries still have chances to qualify to the football World Cup next year in South Africa.

And oh yes, in the morning we learnt how to make links to the postings.

See for example the several good links of St. Augustine University journalism lecturer Albert Tibaijuka right here.

And here is the latest posting by Mathias Byabato from Channel Ten, Bukoba, with many good links providing more information and a good service for his Kiswahili readers who also know some English.

Raymond Nyamwihula, Star TV, provides a link with comments to a news story about the new Attorney General proclaiming that he’s not a member of the ruling CCM party.

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