The workshop participants are tapping their keyboards like early morning birds, writing their next postings about ideas that came up during yesterday’s sessions.
To give a briefing of Jumatano, one could say that we moved over to even more practical journalistic issues during the age of internet. The general headline was “Internet in everyday journalism.”
In the morning we visited practically all Tanzanian media house websites, made comparisons and discussed how the journalists in the class are taking part in the process of the updating of their companies’ sites.
The developments in this area are fast in Tanzania. Three years ago, there were only three media companies that had a website for publishing news content: IPP Media, which launched their website already in 1995, and two others, the weekly newspaper The Express and a regional paper, Arusha Times. But today most newspaper houses are also online, also some TV channels. Daily News has video content, Mwananchi publishes readers’ comments, many others have search possibilities, and some just seem to have developed a very convenient, functional and reader-friendly design.
We also made some comparisons with Kenyan Daily Nation, Monitor from Uganda (with lots of advertisements!), the South African Mail & Guardian, and visited some international news sites from BBC and Reuters to Al-Jazeera and IPS News. I also showed the news portal AllAfrica.com where you can read the latest stories from 125 African news sites.
In the afternoon, we started doing some simple fact-finding searches, finding out names of capitals and presidents, and populations of other countries. The last topic was to tell about the background of the president of Bolivia. So, first you had to find out who is the current president of the country and then make a separate search with his name. So now we all know a bit about Evo Morales, the former trade union boss of coca farmers and the first Bolivian “Indian” to be elected as president.
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