Second day of investigative internet training

The second day of investigative internet journalism training was a day of full practical. We started by searching for different information such as world press freedom day in Tanzania, Tanzania itself, Kikwete, Iringa and Baraka Obama. We were using different searching sources like anytime, past week, past hours, custom range, sort by date and advanced search. The aim was to get more information about something we were looking for.

Practical on how to narrow research with Google was done as well as searching for map of Iringa and Dar es Salaam via internet. We were able to look on how to get directions from Iringa to Morocco road and Nkrumah Street in Dar es Salaam on map via satellite, earth, photo as well.

We were given the assignment about Ezekiel Kimboi. Who is he? His merits and why has he been appeared in the week news. Through internet research in different websites we found that Ezekiel Kemboi is a Kenyan athlete a winner of the 3,000 metres steeplechase at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2009 World Championships, the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Summer Olympics. He appeared in this week news after a criminal charges against him have been dropped by a serving police officer Anne Njeri Otieno. We posted this story in our blog and added link.

Setting was another practical done by participants by changing design and dates because it was found that the time allocated in our blogs was not genuine according to GMT.

Day two end by linking participant’s in our blogs. This work was done by every participant so that s/he can be able to access blogs of others. 

Day two was joyful and useful to me because I learned a lot through digging information via internet. It was a full research practical. I learned how to add link in the word we want in our stories something which was new to me. This is a fruit of investigative internet journalism training. I believe that it will be useful even to other journalists who will be given the chance to attend the same training. I will also be a pioneer of the training to my colleague.