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Announcing this cycle on Tuesday, Ms. Joke Kujenya, executive-in-charge, MMJC/MMLA, said the initiative is a generational connection of mass communications students and young journalists with older, well-established media professionals.
“The idea,” she stated, “is to ensure that the youngsters are prepared ready for employment because they would have learned various journalism skills, including inquisitiveness, pitching for stories, basic newswriting, investigative journalism and newsroom culture.”
Kujenya noted that during an eight-month interaction with campus journalists; many of them were found to be weak in many of these areas, hence the intervention, to not only help reduce the burden of newsroom managers when these students eventually become editorial staff but to also make the students appreciate that they must invest in their personal and professional growth.
Prior to the formal kick off, MMJC on Monday, 23 August began a one-week “Meet Your Mentor” process in which each participating students reached out to their mentors, introducing themselves and indicating the areas they would want to be groomed in.