This is my first posting from a training course on investigative internet journalism arranged here at the Tanzania Global Development Learning Centre (TGDLC) at the Institute of Finance Management in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital of Tanzania.
The training course is part of an internet training programme for Tanzanian journalists co-arranged by MISA Tanzania and VIKES Foundation, a solidarity organization of the Union of Journalists in Finland, with support from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
This training is the second investigative internet journalism training and already the 19th internet training course altogether arranged within the programme which has been running since 2008. Other previous internet courses have focused on editors from national mainstream media, radio producers, and local reporters and journalism lecturers in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Zanzibar and Arusha. During the last two years, Swahili-language training courses have been arranged for local reporters and regional correspondents in Morogoro, Iringa, Dodoma, Shinyanga, Mbeya and Mtwara.
Today, I’m honoured to be in class with some of the best journalists and journalism lecturers in the country. There are ten participants from six national newspapers, one national TV station and three institutions for journalism education. Most of the participants have attended similar training courses before, and several are also conducting internet training either at their universities or at the regional training events organized within this same programme.
The morning was hectic as our class was invaded by a large group of local journalists. The representatives of the media came to report about the event and made interviews with the participants and Jussi Nummelin, the Second Secretary from the Embassy of Finland in Dar es Salaam, who gave a speech to open the course. It was a good speech, encouraging the participants to continue working hard against all challenges in order to inform the public and keep the government accountable to the people.
More of the training day later.
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