The day began as planned at
around 9:00 am. at Mbeya. The participant participated fully as the topic of the day was
so engaging and really practical one.
Participants in the workshop were
familiarized with how to go about doing the Investigative Internet Journalism
which includes knowing what you want, monitoring other news cites local and
international and also to be keen in choosing the right search.
What was more interesting for the
day was the fact that the mode of lecturing was so engaging and gave the
participants time to exercise more and familiarize themselves with the do’s and
don’ts of the internet search.
The most interesting part also
was the exercise whereby the participants did enough exercise including
searching of phone numbers of important figures in the world and how to search
for a specific information via narrowing the search and this went hand in hand
with the key exercise which was guided by instructions on how to search,
investigate and then come up with a story in the internet.
Key issues included, structuring
the story in the mind and deciding what is relevant for the narrative you are
about to work on. Also the importance of using one’s own words in the work was
of paramount importance and adding quotes whenever necessary.
Other key issues to adhere to was
to make sure that you spend more time on the investigation of what you want to
publish than on writing it and this must be accompanied by planning the story
into narrative chunks and most importantly putting in human interest in the
story.
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