This is my first posting from an internet training with local journalism lecturers at St. Augustine University of Tanzania, or shortly SAUT, a highly regarded Catholic church-based academic institution located at Nyegezi in the outskirts of Mwanza town. We’re on the fourth floor of the library building in an old style ICT class with windows open and a beautiful scenery over some rocky hills and Lake Victoria, the second biggest freshwater basin in the world.
This intensive training is part of a wider internet training programme for Tanzanian journalists and journalism lecturers co-arranged by MISA Tanzania and Vikes – Finnish Foundation for Media and Development, a solidarity organization of the Union of Journalists in Finland and other Finnish journalist associations, with support from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
The training is the third internet training arranged specifically for journalism lecturers in Tanzania and already, believe it or not, the 46th internet training course arranged within the training programme, which has been running since 2008.
Other previous internet courses have focused on editors from national mainstream media as well as radio producers, local reporters and also journalism lecturers in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mbeya, Mwanza and Zanzibar.
During the last six years, separate Swahili-language training courses have also been arranged for local reporters and regional correspondents in 18 locations around the country, namely Babati, Bukoba, Dodoma, Geita, Iringa, Kigoma, Mbeya, Morogoro, Moshi, Mtwara, Musoma, Mwanza, Njombe, Pemba, Shinyanga, Songea, Sumbawanga and Tanga. These trainings have been conducted by a group of dedicated Tanzanian trainers, who have been trained specifically for that purpose as part of this same programme.
Now, at this internet journalism training at SAUT, there are 16 lecturers from the local journalism department, currently teaching courses ranging from basic news reporting to feature writing, broadcast journalism, public relations, interpersonal communication, social ethics, and environmental journalism, among others.
The day has started well with plenty of time spent for introductions and listing of expectations. More about the proceedings of the first training day later.
This intensive training is part of a wider internet training programme for Tanzanian journalists and journalism lecturers co-arranged by MISA Tanzania and Vikes – Finnish Foundation for Media and Development, a solidarity organization of the Union of Journalists in Finland and other Finnish journalist associations, with support from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
The training is the third internet training arranged specifically for journalism lecturers in Tanzania and already, believe it or not, the 46th internet training course arranged within the training programme, which has been running since 2008.
Other previous internet courses have focused on editors from national mainstream media as well as radio producers, local reporters and also journalism lecturers in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mbeya, Mwanza and Zanzibar.
During the last six years, separate Swahili-language training courses have also been arranged for local reporters and regional correspondents in 18 locations around the country, namely Babati, Bukoba, Dodoma, Geita, Iringa, Kigoma, Mbeya, Morogoro, Moshi, Mtwara, Musoma, Mwanza, Njombe, Pemba, Shinyanga, Songea, Sumbawanga and Tanga. These trainings have been conducted by a group of dedicated Tanzanian trainers, who have been trained specifically for that purpose as part of this same programme.
Now, at this internet journalism training at SAUT, there are 16 lecturers from the local journalism department, currently teaching courses ranging from basic news reporting to feature writing, broadcast journalism, public relations, interpersonal communication, social ethics, and environmental journalism, among others.
The day has started well with plenty of time spent for introductions and listing of expectations. More about the proceedings of the first training day later.
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