The first day of the Investigative Internet Journalism (IIJ)Training took us from the introductory stage of the training up to the stage whereby everyone was expected to be able to manage posting information into own blog. I created new blog after experiencing some problems in reactivating the one which I created during the first training in 2008. Some participants attended the first training four years ago at the same place. Few are new though many are knowing to each other.
It started with short brainstorming of the self introduction where each participant expressed himself and finally explaining the expectation after the training. We had first to know the acutal meaning or essense of the Investigative Journalism (IJ), followed by the full understanding of the internet technology as a special tool for the search of information when one gets into deep investigative reporting. In order to be able to quickly catch up the definition, we went through different aspects of the definition of the investigative internet journalism. There are several definitions found in the manuals. However, one of the scholars whose definition is taken as an excellent one, is Alan Knight. He says it is making in-depth search of information to uncover the somewhat untold stories which have been into big silence.
On working on blogs, we created blogs and posted two items.
We learnt that investigative internet journalism can also be used to write information which concern personalities or research.
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