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Digital journalism initiation for Zimbabwean journalists
MISA-Zimbabwe
April 24, 2007

Sixteen journalists drawn from different media houses in Zimbabwe attended a three-day digital journalism course at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa as part of efforts to create alternative sources of information and ideas in view of the shrinking media space in the country.

The course which was organised by the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA-Zimbabwe) and Rhodes University’s Highway Africa, was run by Dr Peter Verwey a lecturer with the School of Journalism in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Participants were introduced to the use of blogs, which are personal WebPages that can easily be accessed through the Internet. During the course each of the journalists had the opportunity to open their own blogs from which they are already disseminating and exchanging information and ideas on current socio-economic and political events in the country.

The workshop which was held from 11 – 14 April 2007 also covered issues on how best to use the Internet as a source of information while getting the most relevant data, verifying credibility of the websites they use as research tools, digital story telling and Internet-based research.

Participants described the workshop as an eye opener which will enhance their journalistic skills in view of the research tools and advantages offered by the convergence and divergence of the ICT revolution.

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