WitsJournalism

FinWrite

FinWrite is an annual two-day workshop for working financial journalists hosted by Wits Journalism and held at the University of the Witwatersrand. The event has been run since 2011, with some 45 journalists in attendance last year. 

In 2012, topics included competition economics, the National Development Plan, financial sector regulation, the Eurozone crisis, corruption, statistics, state enterprises and China and Africa.


finwrite 2012 flyer

View the presentations from the 2012 workshop here
View the presentations from the 2011 workshop here
 


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