Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Searching for facts until sunset

The day was long today. The sun had already gone to sleep behind the horizon of Lake Victoria as I wandered from the venue back to the accommodation together with Marko Gideon, the training facilitator and information officer of MISA Tanzania.

But Mwanza town was still busy with lots of street food vendors nearby the railway station, and a nice smell of mishkaki was rising from the barbecue stalls along Kenyatta Road.

Today in the training, we moved forward to even more practical journalistic issues. In the morning, we visited some international news sites and African web resources (more about those later) and practically all Tanzanian media websites: from IPP Media, which has just renewed its site, to the weekly newspaper Raia Mwema and the newcomer Kwanza Jamii, which both are truly nice and reader-friendly by their layouts.

In Tanzania, there are now already more than 20 media outlets which have a regularly updated online site. Quite a change in a very short period, since in 2006 there were only three media houses that had their own website!

Before lunch we had a short break in the network connection, which I did my best to fill with explaining some points of email communication skills and preaching against plagiarism.

But soon the network was back again, and luckily faster than ever, so we did some exercises in searching for simple facts, names of capitals and presidents and the populations in different countries.

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