This is my first posting from an internet training with some of Tanzania’s most prominent journalists – most of them having been in the profession since the 1980’s, or even longer. Fili Karashani, nowadays journalism lecturer at the Muslim University in Morogoro, told us at the introduction that he started his career at Daily Nation in Nairobi, Kenya, already in the jazzy 1960’s.
The training is taking place at Hotel De Mag Plaza in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam, a classy property with swimming pool and air-conditioned conference rooms, which you wouldn’t imagine based on the location in a dusty dirt road neighbourhood.
The training course is part of a wider internet training programme for Tanzanian journalists and journalism lecturers co-arranged by MISA Tanzania and Vikes – The Finnish Foundation for Media and Development, a solidarity organization of the Union of Journalists in Finland, with support from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
This is the first training focusing particularly on what they here call veteran journalists, partly initiated by some of the old-timers themselves. It’s the 43rd 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 journalism lecturers in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mbeya, Mwanza and Zanzibar.
During the last five years, separate Swahili-language training courses have also been arranged for local reporters and regional correspondents in fifteen locations around the country, namely Dodoma, Geita, Iringa, Kigoma, Mbeya, Morogoro, Moshi, Mtwara, Musoma, Mwanza, Njombe, Pemba, Shinyanga, Songea and Sumbawanga. These trainings have been conducted by a group of dedicated Tanzanian trainers who have been trained for that purpose as part of this same programme.
More about the proceedings of the first training day with the veteran journos will be updated later.
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