Digital driven trends emerge during African Investigative Journalism Conference
As journalism evolves and is under continuous pressure with newsrooms staffed with junior journalists and limited resources as the competition for dwindling advertising revenue becomes fierce, Covid-19 added to the woes of journalism. The pandemic dealt a huge blow to most media houses, forcing journalists to innovate as they strive to retain, and even increase their audiences. Despite these challenges, communities looked up to investigative journalists to expose wrongdoings by those in power, particularly during lockdowns when many governments seized…