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We started the today’s session by introducing
ourselves to each other. Mr. Peik the facilitator introduced himself first then
the participants. Thereafter, the facilitator introduced the concepts on the
investigative internet journalism where he defined the terms with some
examples. He explained the main objective of investigative internet journalism
was to use the internet in fact finding and developing journalism stories based
on research so that it exposes to the public bad issues which people tend to
hide such as corruption, crimes, etc. This was a lengthy discussion on how
investigative internet journalism is done in the world. He also gave the differences
between blogs, discussion forums and facebook.
He also gave us some links to various online resources that explain more
about the topic, such as The News manual by Daniel, Vol. 1-24 and others. There
were some contributions from the participants.
Later, Mr. Peik introduced us how to create
a blog. I managed to create a blog with the title: Tagamasimu in which I posted
my first text about myself and a short account about the workshop.
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What I liked most was the fact that I did not
know the difference between a blog, discussion forum such as Jamii Forum and
facebook account. I liked how one can use a facebook to collect views, tips,
information, etc. which would help to conduct
a deeper investigation and later come up with a factual analysis for publication
so that people can read your story and know what is going on. I also enjoyed the
creation of my own blog. This was also my new experience having the expertise of
creating a blog. Finally, I liked the menu provided to all of us. It was both
nutritious and delicious indeed.
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Everything was very good, except the session began
late but for justifiable reasons.
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What I learnt today: The concepts of
investigative internet journalism and how to create a blog
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Concrete examples about research assignments,
search tips: The class discussion helped me to know that facebook can be a very
resourceful place to get story tips, information and data in order to conduct
an investigative story through the internet although majority use it for
entertainment, fancy stories about
celebrities, sex partners, friends, etc
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