Training Destiny is in the sands for proud Pondos Starry, starry fight American journalism intern Luke Riley muses on southern skies, a patch of land beneath it, and the fight for its future Written by rovingreporters April 10, 2019January 6, 2020
Training Lights, camera…Oops! Roving Reporters intern Bukeka Silekwa witness a nightmare moment in broadcasting and deftly sidesteps another. Written by rovingreporters November 8, 2018November 8, 2018
Training Huang on a Mao: more to China’s African adventure than meets the eye Twenty students from across the country worked with a Wits Vuvuzela team to cover the 14th annual African Investigative Journalism Conference at the university. Thabiso Goba was one of them. Written by RR November 6, 2018November 10, 2018
Training Exposé of fake ANC members Former Roving Reporters intern, Sabelo Nsele, now working for The Witness, scooped a regional Vodacom Journalism the Year award last night for exposing fake ANC membership cards in the build-up to the ruling party’s national conference last year. Written by rovingreporters November 3, 2018August 28, 2019
Training What Roving Reporters can do for an international intern Not all journalism students are lucky enough to get a front page byline and a private, in-person interview with the National Geographic Storytelling Grants Program Officer on their first internship. Internships in journalism are so competitive in the United States, that finding an unpaid one doesn’t ensure that you will actually grow as a writer […] Written by rovingreporters October 31, 2018January 20, 2020
Training Of hot talk and jellyfish sex Roving Reporters intern Thabiso Goba is swept away by the passion of it all at his maiden WildOceans Science Session. Written by RR October 24, 2018November 12, 2018
Training FLASHBACK: Joel Burton lands his first byline In celebration of Joel Burton’s birthday earlier this week, we share the story the landed his first byline in print: a profile of Brad Weare – the real deal in longboard surfing. Joel subsequently served a six month internship with Roving Reporters as part of the required work-integrated learning component of his studies toward a Diploma […] Written by rovingreporters October 21, 2018October 21, 2018
Training FLASHBACK: Five years for turtle butcher Ten years ago, Durban University of Technology final year journalism students serving internships at Roving Reporters, began preparing for an epic Taco Kuiper Trust sponsored investigation: The Turtle Butcher. The investigation aimed to document the life of then 54-year-old, Makotikoti Zikhali, who had earlier in year been sentenced to five years in jail for killing an […] Written by rovingreporters October 17, 2018October 25, 2021
Training On calling out the gaslighter in chief and other dilemmas In his blog this week, which tracks his experiences as a Roving Reporters intern, Thabiso Goba grapples with some big philosophical issues and the role of the journalist in a post-truth wold. Written by RR October 12, 2018October 14, 2018
Training High-flying hack: on mining for the truth and meeting my Deep Throat Time flies at Roving Reporters and I cannot believe barely a month has passed since I started my internship, writes Thabiso Goba in his first training blog. Written by RR October 9, 2018July 31, 2019