High Commission officials have met four UK-sponsored media trainers to monitor their ongoing projects to train their peers in standard journalism practice.

Out -gone Second Secretary Giles Montagnon, Communications Manager Abel Akara Ticha and Projects Manager Elvis Arrey were recently briefed by trainers from Le Jour, CRTV, Mutations and Sky 1 Radio on developments in their newsrooms since they returned from the UK-sponsored workshop - Training a Cadre of Journalism Trainers in Limbe.

Exploits

• Le Jour's Jules Romuald Nkonlak has refreshed colleagues from all bureaux f the paper on the circuit of news production.  Jules –   "Colleagues have been very receptive to the initiative because they actually realised the need.  Also my Editor-in-Chief has been encouraging"
• Mutation's Roger Taakam has been systematically addressing colleagues on daily professional gaps and has held training sessions with interns.
• Sky 1's Herve Mfoula has revisited a number of topics with colleagues: the meaning of news, news sources, and selection, ethics and press freedom in Cameroon. 

Next Steps

• CRTV's Ephraim Banda and Telesphore Bizo are designing a project to cascade training on colleagues in the 10 regions of Cameroon
• Lesson sharing and cross-training sessions involving several the media organisations
• High Commission to source and provide manuals
• Trainers' engagement on their exchange web forum
• High Commission officials to visit the other trainers in Douala and other regions soonest
  

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