Strategies for Internet Technology and Digital Rights Reporting https://zimbabwe.misa.org Most respondents did not show confidence in their own and their peers’ mastery of internet and technology-related matters. Individual agency appears to play a big role in the choice to cover specialised beats as journalists that desire to learn, tend to find ways of doing so by independently researching on and familiarising themselves with the subject. Supposing journalists are interested in covering internet and technology issues and that media outlets are willing to introduce it as a specialist beat, there are challenges to overcome – some of which have already been alluded to. 16