Thursday, October 29, 2009

Media houses should empower their journalists

Good morning to all! We are back in the cool air-conditioned multimedia hall going through yesterday’s postings. For the comments of the training participants, please visit their blogs. Links to almost all are now on the right.

Getrude John from St. Augustine University says that she was surprised to notice that the local media websites were not very frequently visited by local correspondents. She concludes by suggesting that media owners should empower their journalists to be able to make more effectively use of the internet for producing more critical and analytical reports.

George Ramadhan of Nipashe writes that he’s very happy about the training and especially for learning about websites he didn’t previously access because of what he calls “internet illiteracy”.

“Keep going, George”, as Tausi Mbalamwezi, legal adviser of Mwanza Press Club, encourages him in a comment she posted to his blog.

For more about the fact-finding exercises, see the summary by Albert Tibaijuka. And if you can read Kiswahili, I recommend the report by Elieth Sekiku from Radio Fadeco, a community radio in Karagwe.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks Mr. Peik for your contribution to put those Lake zone journalists on the modern wold.

    My comment is that I think correspondents far from their Media houses (headquarters) should be more empowered.

    Most of this correspondents lacks proper offices and they depend more on limited Internet cafe for their journalistic assignments.

    Therefore, if the owners should focus on those guys, it is my hope that we are going to get more and timely stories from the common people.

    Thanks again for the workshop. Good luck to the participants. Tchaaoooooooo.

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