POLOKWANE – Two eager young cadets walked into Review’s offices this morning to begin their month long journey at the Review as part of the Caxton Cadet School 2017.
Carefully hand selected by Caxton, students from all over the country learn how to become efficient and professional community newspaper journalists.
Caxton Community Newspapers has been training journalists for several years and launched the initiative when it saw the need to make its newsrooms more representative of the new South Africa.
Cadets spend four months on campus, in the classroom, and the rest of the year in Caxton newsrooms. The students learn how to source news, concentrate on local news from social events to crime, court and council, and from profiles to investigations, and how to make a difference in their communities.
Group Editor, Joline Nash explains that the Caxton Cadet School gives journalists, who don’t have the financial means to further their studies the opportunity to become part of the exciting, interesting and sometimes, crazy life of a journalist.
“Northern Media Group welcomes two cadets this year, Daniel Lediga and Miranda Chauke. We hope that what you learn at cadet school will pave the way to a fruitful career in journalism,” she said.
Under the watchful and capable eyes of Riana Joubert and Cheryllee Hannam, Daniel and Miranda will learn everything there is to know about being the eyes and ears of the community.
Chauke (25) says she has always had a passion for journalism and was a fan of the Review before she applied to be part of the Cadet School.
“What I’m looking forward to the most is getting the opportunity to go out and source stories as well as meeting new people around Polokwane,” she said.
Lediga (26) says he applied for the Cadet School when he saw it advertised in the newspaper.
“When I saw it in the newspaper I immediately saw it as an opportunity to experience journalism first hand and I applied. This is a chance for me to brighten my future,” he says.
Lediga is looking forward to the investigation part of journalism. “Getting to the core of the story will be very interesting,” he said.
