Introduction To Safaricom Business Journalism Fellowship Program
Introduction
The Fellowship Program will be an experiential learning and mentoring program.
It will comprise of three components as follows:
- A four day module that will be in 3 phases
- 9 intensive half day workshops spread over 9 months (one Saturday morning a month)
- 9 Guest Speaker dinner events also spread over 9 months
Modules
The curriculum will be divided into modules whereby each module will be four days of intense training. Specifically, it will cover
- Economic Analysis: Understanding, analysing and interpretation of economic data
- Financial Analysis: Understanding, analysing and interpreting financial reports
- Economic and Financial: Writing, Translating data and analysis to stories
Guest Speaker (Newsmaker) Events
These will be social evenings (dinners) with newsmakers and Industry Influencers. The speakers will be leaders (newsmakers) in each of the fields.
More Information
| The Workshops | |
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Intensive half day workshops, one Saturday morning a month spread over 9 months. Themes:
A core faculty of three experts in each of the skill areas (economic analysis, financial analysis and financial journalist) will be joined by a practitioner in each of the themes for the workshop. The half day workshop will have two sessions. |
 In the first session, the core faculty and the Fellows will review the developments in the field—critique the stories (both by the fellows and others). In the second session, the subject expert will make a presentation followed by an interactive discussion. |
| Module 1: Finance and Economics (2 sessions for each topic) | |
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