The three day training was designed to transmit best practice modules from a specially designed story based investigative reporting manual. Journalists learnt introduction to investigative reporting, forming the hypothesis, investigative reporting style and structure, data driven reporting using the FOI law, among other things. Clear distinction was made between the normal journalistic practice that sticks to reporting events as opposed to the process oriented story based investigative reporting. The facilitators CEMESP Program Officer Albert Baron Ansu and Publisher of the Public Trust Media Frank Sainworla stressed the point that investigative reporting requires research, depth and fraught with risk factors. They have been reminded that there is immense goodwill from donors that are eager to instill transparency and accountability based on fact based reporting anchored on ethics rather than subterfuge.

Source: Front Page Africa September 02, 2020 03:00 UTC