EDITOR'S WORKSHOP DAY 2

Day 2

Feb. 03, 2009

Journalism in the age of internet

The second day of this important training workshop has given all participants the real insight on the rapid changing journalism with more usage of internet facilities as one of the major sources of information.

In the morning we started the session by opening individual blogs and the trainer, Peik Johansson who is a journalist and Training consultant from Finland led us to a successful end of the lesson.

The lesson (blog address) for each of us was very important for the fact that it provided a page to post the brief report created the previous day regarding the accomplishments of the first day of the seminar for editors in Dar es Salaam .

The assignment that followed was going through a long speech by a famous American media tycoon, Rupert Mudorch he delivered to print media editors in USA in May last year.

His emphasis was on the need for the print media to continue creating specific online communication services where they could come up with good and ‘eye-catching’ substance/information to meet the expectation of the audience/readers.

A brief discussion that followed highlighted the points stressed in the speech basically on the rapid domination of online publications over the hard-copies of print media.

Internet has greatly improved the work of journalists who are now capable of searching for background information to give proper context of the content of their stories. With the help of internet it has become easy to accesses cross-cut information from various media sources i.e. print, electronic, radio and online publications.

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