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Appendix D: Interview QuestionsQuestions for editors• Ask editors about the access to Internet and long distance phone calls• How many people in your newsroom have been on economic journalism trainings?• Organized by which organization?• Do you have a view as to the most effective economic journalism training programs? Anyyou have found particularly effective or ineffective?• What differences have you seen in their coverage before/after the economic journalismtraining?• Do they get promoted? /leave their jobs? Is brain drain a problem?• What is needed to improve the quality of journalism in your newsroom and in Africa?Questions for journalists• Have you had any training on the extractives? Budget reporting? Understanding contractswith oil/mining companies?Questions on the impact of the economic journalism trainings• What are some examples of issues or stories the economic journalism training led you tocover that you hadn’t previously looked into?• What aspect of the economic journalism training has been most helpful to you?• What, if anything, about the economic journalism training has made your job more difficult?• What was your least favorite part of the economic journalism training? How would youchange the training?• What were skills you learned in the economic journalism training that you’ve wanted to usein your reporting, but couldn’t?• Are there stories you want to cover but cannot? If not, why not?• Is economic journalism training the best way to overcome the challenges journalists face?Questions on the impact of the economic journalism trainings on extractive industriescoverage• How has economic journalism training affected your ability to cover extractives, like oiland/or mining?• Is economic journalism training the best way to promote transparency of governmentrevenues from extractive industries (oil, gas, mining, etc.)?Questions on media coverage of economic and business issues and overcoming challenges• Do you think that the media are doing a good enough job in covering economic andbusiness issues in your country, or should they improve? Why do you think this?• What are the most significant challenges media face when reporting on economic andbusiness issues?– 100 –