https://zimbabwe.misa.org Strategies for Internet Technology and Digital Rights Reporting These responses indicate that there is low editorial commitment to specialised journalism, which would extend to reporting on internet, technology and digital rights. Lack of knowledge of internet and technology issues 70% of the respondents in the survey indicated that journalists in their respective countries were not knowledgeable enough to report on internet and technology issues. Respondents intuitively discerned that there was a difference between a knowledge gap and a skills gap. Although, 43 the expectations of the industry veer towards the overly optimistic and unrealistic demand that the reporter should be able to turn his or her hand to anything – 90% of the respondents admitted that most journalists lack the requisite knowledge to pursue specialised journalism in internet and technology issues. 43See Turner, B., & Orange, R. (Eds.). (2013). Specialist journalism. Routledge. 15