Journalists in The Gambia contacted Media Helping Media asking for a training module to be written for parliamentary reporting. Bob Eggington, former head of the BBC’s political and parliamentary unit, has jotted down his tips for those covering parliamentary debates.

Egyptian blogger Wael Khalil usually writes blog posts about the government, the opposition and sometimes sports, but last Tuesday he played the role of journalism fact-checker. He posted an apparently altered photograph of Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak, suggesting that he was leading the Middle East peace talks, in Egypt’s state-run newspaper Al-Ahram.