About corruption charges and climate change

On Thursday, the participants were working on some more advanced journalistic research assignments, searching for background information from resources in the internet, and producing stories.

Here are the topics they could choose from:

Climate change in Tanzania
What could be the economic effects of climate change in Tanzania?
Search for information through the internet and remember also to mention your sources.

Jerry Muro court case
It was reported in the Tanzanian press the other day that the trial of TBC journalist Jerry Muro is about begin in court. Make a search from local news sources.
Explain what Jerry Muro is accused of and also how the Tanzanian media has been commenting on the case.

Binyavanga Wainaina
Read the short travel story “He’s my Brother” by Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina.
Write a short commentary where you explain the story and what thoughts it raised in you. Also explain who is Binyavanga.

Most of the more senior participants chose to write about the climate change. Here’s the story by Revocatus Makaranga, chief subeditor of Mtanzania newspaper. Here’s the article by Francis Chirwa, editor of the weekly Raia Mwema, focusing especially on the effects on Mount Kilimanjaro. And here’s a link to the story by Nonatus Migwano, journalism lecturer at Royal College of Tanzania.

For the case of the investigative journalist Jerry Muro, see the commentary by Edward Kinabo, subeditor of Tanzania Daima.

Issa Athumani from SJMC was the only one to write about the travel story of Binyavanga Wainaina. The Kenyan author is well-known for publishing his texts often in online publications. The short travel story that appeared on a website called Travel Intelligence is a beautiful narrative of a warm night spent in Dar es Salaam, in transit from South Africa back to Kenya.