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Strategies for Internet Technology
and Digital Rights Reporting

The fact that more than half of the respondents indicated that they and their compatriots had moderate
or limited capacity to report effectively on internet and technology, is a strong indicator of a knowledge
and skills gap to engage in this type of specialised journalism.

Lack of interest in internet and technology reporting
Apart from lack of skills to cover internet and technology issues another challenge is that these
themes have a low status within newsrooms. For the most part, specialised journalism takes a back

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