Wits Journalism invites you to the annual Power Reporting Workshop, taking place from Monday, 27 October - Wednesday, 29 October 2008. The Wits Power Reporting Workshop has become an important annual event on the African media training and conferencing calendar. It offers intensive training in investigative journalism skills and enables African analytical journalists to come together from all corners of the continent to discuss common challenges, sharpen their exploratory skills and interact with their colleagues from the rest of the world.

Since the advent and rapid expansion of web-assisted reporting, the Internet has become a powerful tool for journalists who know how to use it properly. This year's conference features workshops by international trainers at the cutting edge of Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR).
Workshops will be conducted by Brant Houston (former executive chair of Investigative Reporters and Editors, now the Knight Chair for Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, University of Illinois), Dutch trainer Tommy Kaas and local experts Sam Sole and Tara Turkington.

Also at the conference will be:
- Palagummi Sainath, Indian award-winning reporter of life and poverty, author of Everyone Loves a Good Drought
- Günter Wallraff, controversial German immersion journalist
- leading Ugandan journalist Frank Nyakairu
- Finnigan Frazer Simbeye, whose exposé of a fraudulent tender brought down the Tanzanian Prime Minister in February

There is a special focus also on business and financial forensic reporting.The workshop is organised by Wits University's Investigative Journalism Workshop (IJW) in conjunction with the Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR), the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg (IAJ), International Reporters and Editors (IRE), the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London and MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa). Sponsors are the Valley Trust and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
For more information on the conference go to http://www.journalism.co.za

Venue

Date: 27 October 2008 to 29 October 2008
Location: Wits Education Campus, 27 St Andrews Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
Cost: R1650 for all the days- Groups of 10+ get a 10% discount

Contact: Obakeng Mooke
Company name: Wits University
Telephone number: +27 11 341 0767
Email address investigative.journ@wits.ac.za