The Guardian Post welcomes 2024 batch of interns.

The students were welcomed at the institution’s auspicious head office, located in the Efoulan-Lac neigibourhood of Yaounde, Monday July 01.

On behalf of the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Post, Ngah Christisn Mbipgo, the Managing Editor, Doh Bertrand Nua, welcomed the students on industrial attachment.

The students had their baptism of fire during the traditional morning Editorial Conference of the media house. 

After being given the chance to introduce themselves, the students, drawn from several journalism schools nationwide, were schooled on the Dos and Don’ts as they begin acquiring practical skills in their chosen field.

Addressing the students, the Managing Editor reminded them on the need to be decent, punctual and committed in order to get the best from the experienced brains at The Guardian Post.

Doh also told the interns that by virtue of their industrial attachment at The Guardian Post, they should become veritable ambassadors of the towering media enterprise that has stood the test of time in the last 23 years.

To enable the students best understand the workings of The Guardian Post, the interns later had a working session with the Managing Editor and the Senior Editor of The Guardian Post, Solomon Tembang.

For close to an hour, they schooled the students on The Guardian Post’s middle-of-the-road editorial policy, the history of the media organ, house style and other basics.

They reminded the students that despite working for a media organ, journalists are liable for the mistakes they make when it comes to the practice of journalism.

To avoid such ugly happenstances, the students were advised to uphold the practice of verifying information and crosschecking such before publishing.

The editors also emphasised the need for the students to get a mastery and proper use of acronyms, abbreviations, dates and above all the inverted pyramid of newswriting.

Some of the interns are drawn from the Advanced School of Mass Communication, ASMAC; the Higher Institute of Science, Microfinance and Local Government, HISMIL, Higher Institute of Translation, Interpretation and Communication, HITIC, and other professional schools.

Written by Ngange Glory Yinyu, Saju Linda, Hure Hamidou Abdu & Tabe Glory Ama (Journalism students on internship)

This story was first published in The Guardian Post issue No: 3156 of Tuesday July 02, 2024