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Investigative journalism training, 20 Jan 2017

19 Jan, 2017
MISA Lesotho will hold an investigative journalism training workshop focusing on open-source information, identifying and handling human sources and interrogating investigative targets.

MISA Lesotho will hold a training workshop on investigative journalism with amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism. The workshop will be held on Friday the 20th January 2017, from 0900hrs-1600hrs at MISA Lesotho premises, Happy Villa, House 1b, Maseru.

The training will be facilitated by investigator Craig McKune from amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism in Johannesburg. The training will mainly focus on the importance of open-source information, how to snoop online, how to identify and handle human sources and how to interrogate investigative targets.

The participants of this training are journalists from both print and broadcast media, government and private and independent journalists in Lesotho.

With this training, MISA Lesotho is living up to supporting greater professionalism in the media industry by building capacity through training, workshops, seminars, research and information resources and other educational platforms

For further information, please contact

Matselane Mosoaboli

Information and Communication Officer

MISA Lesotho

About MISA

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) was founded in 1992. Its work focuses on promoting, and advocating for, the unhindered enjoyment of freedom of expression, access to information and a free, independent, diverse and pluralistic media.

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