Accra – June 15, 2026: FactSpace West Africa participated in two DW Akademie Ghana workshops on Investigative and Constructive Journalism.
Research Associate, Gifty Danso, who joined the weeklong Investigative Journalism training said the workshop gave her valuable knowledge and insights on covering in-depth topics. “The training offered me a good understanding about why I should care about doing investigative stories as a journalist, and also how to do them.
“It was great hearing and learning from a journalist such as Manasseh Azure Awuni, and also getting to know about iFact, a Georgian investigative outlet that still manages to do accountability stories despite working in a hostile political environment,” she said.
The topic for the session was Investigative Journalism: Advanced tools and techniques for uncovering and reporting evidence‑based stories.
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Participants included early and mid-career journalists pooled from multiple media houses across two regions. They were taken through concepts such as how to find an investigative topic, sources, conducting interviews, among others.
The training was facilitated by Ghanaian investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni, and Patrick Batarilo of DW.
On his part, Alfa Shaban, who joined the Constructive Journalism (CJ) training programme lauded the week-long training as pivotal in how real impactful stories needed to be told. He spoke highly about the depth of the topics treated and how practical the sessions were.
“This training introduced us to a brand of journalism that goes beyond the normal newsroom reporting to provide nuance and context to issues, while proffering insights, identifying limitations and solutions to everyday issues.
“As fact-checkers, our immediate reports often do not take into account solutions to the issues of information disorder we are flagging but CJ challenges reporters to give more in terms of presenting a more rounded story or piece,” Alfa added.
The training, which took place at the SSNIT Guest House in Accra, brought together media practitioners from across the Greater Accra and the Central Regions under the EU‑funded African Media Integrity and Resilience (AMIR) Programme – Ghana.
The CJ training, under the topic: Constructive Journalism: Approaches to reporting societal challenges in solutions‑oriented, audience‑engaging ways while maintaining editorial rigour, was facilitated by Isaac Kaledzi and Patrick Batarilo, both of DW.
