Participants have posted their feedback on yesterday’s sessions. My most important point of the whole day was how to narrow the search by time of publication, by language, by excluding some words from the search, as well as other advanced search options. Sometimes it’s also wise to search from the whole web, sometimes from Google News only, or Google Scholar for academic articles.
These points were well taken at least by Njonjo Mfaume and Flora Rugashoborola. Flora has actually provided a detailed summary of almost everything we did in class yesterday. One new thing she says that she has learnt was how to provide links from the stories in the blog to the original sources or other websites providing more information.
Other participants mention that yesterday much more time was spent on the investigations.
“Searching about Ezekiel Kemboi, a Kenyan athlete, was a good exercise. The lesson for me was to have so much material and be able to digest it and come up with six paragraphs for a commentary piece”, writes Erick Mchome.
Ratifa Baranyikwa also mentions Google Maps. She says that she found out that a map can sometimes be the best source of information and you can also use maps in news reporting. She actually got so much interested in the maps that she did her own online investigations of how maps can be used in journalistic research and news reporting. So let’s wait and see whether Tanzania Daima will in the future start to publish maps together with their news reports – which is common practice in the newspapers in the Scandinavian countries.
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