Lobte Kee Giefe

UNIVERSITE DE YAOUNDE II
UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDE II
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ECOLE SUPERIEURE DES SCIENCES ET
ADVANCED SCHOOL OF MASS
TECHNIQUES DE L’INFORMATION
UE : LA COMMUNICATION
ET DE
COMMUNICATION
(ASMAC)
(ESSTIC)
EXERCISE :
Internship report carried out at CRTV
National Station from July 12 to October 12
2022.
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a Bachelor Degree in Mass
Communication
Option: Journalism
PRESENTED BY :
LOBTE KEE GIEFE
FIELD :
Journalism III
SUPERVISOR
Valérie DIKOS OUMAROU
Academic year:
2021-2022
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Our internship program at the CRTV National Station for a period of three months would not
have been a fulfilling one, if not for the hands that held and supported us, as well as being able to
come up with this internship report. My sincere and profound gratitude and goes to God almighty
giving us for life, strength and good health to be able to go through the internship program and
to droop every bit of the journey despite the odds.
Secondly, I will like to acknowledge the work of the director of ASMAC, Prf. Alice NGA
MINKALA and the entire teaching staff for nourishing us with the right arms of Journalism, a
conducive learning environment , the follow up till the final stage and for giving students the
opportunity to choose their enterprise of internship.
Thirdly our appreciation goes to the CRTV which is put under the leadership of the Director
General Charles NDONGO, for opening its doors for us at the National Station precisely where
we learnt a lot about the realities of the Journalism Profession.
I am grateful to all my internship supervisors, Mr TEKE Julius, MUAM George, Rita

YUOSEMBOM, Kelly EBEN, MOKI Neville, Patience WIRNGO, Hortensia NTAINE and all
other journalists who made sure they corrected my reports and followed me up all through my
stay the National Station of the CRTV.
Next, I would love to salute my Dad, mum, sister and other family members for their moral and
financial support to enable that I reach this stage and that I go through my internship hitch free.
My final acknowledgement goes to my friends and classmates of the 50th batch of ASMAC who
did not hesitate to come to my aid when I had difficulties understanding one thing or another.
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ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
CRTV: Cameroon Radio and Television.
CTV: Cameroon Television.
ASMAC: Advanced School of Mass Communication.
ESSTIC: École Supérieure Des Sciences et Techniques de L’information et de la

Communication.
EIC: Editor In Chief.
DCR: Directeur Central du pôle Radio.
CDR: Central Director of the Radio.
MR. : Mister.
PROF: Professor.
WIFI: Wireless Fiber.
FM: Frequency Modulation.
MINEPAT: Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development.
MINHDU: Ministry of Housing and Urban Development.
REC: Editor-in-Chief.
SORAFOM: Overseas Radio Corporation.
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TABLE OF CONTENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..............................................................................................................
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ..................................................................................... ii
TABLE OF CONTENT............................................................................................................... iii
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................... 1
PART ONE: PRESENTATION OF THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION ............................ 3
CHAPTER ONE: LOCATION, CREATION AND HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE
CRTV NATIONAL STATION.................................................................................................... 4
1. LOCATION OF THE NATIONAL STATION .............................................................. 4
2. CREATION .................................................................................................................... 4
3. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION .......................................................................................... 5
CHAPTER TWO: PRESENTATION OF THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION .................. 7
1. ORGANISATION AND FUNCTIONING OF THE RADIO ........................................ 7
I) Department of Radio Programming ................................................................................ 7
II) Department of the Radio Newsroom. ........................................................................... 8
III) Different Desks or Services at the Radio ................................................................ 10
IV) News Preparation At The Radio ............................................................................. 12
News Gathering (The Collect of Information) .............................................................. 13
News Processing and Broadcast ..................................................................................... 14
CHAPTER THREE: REQUIRED SETUPS FOR NEWS PRODUCTION AT THE CRTV
NATIONAL STATION AND PROGRAMS BROADCAST. ................................................. 15
1) REQUIRED SETUPS FOR NEWS PRODUCTION ................................................... 15
2. PROGRAMS BEING BROADCAST AT THE RADIO .......................................... 16
CHAPTER FOUR: IDENTIFICATION OF THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION ............ 19
1. PROFILE OF THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION .................................................... 19
PART TWO: INTERNSHIP PRESENTATION AND EVOLUTION .................................. 22
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION AT THE NATIONAL STATION, OBSERVATIONS
AND ONE WEEK OF TRAINING. .......................................................................................... 23
1. FIRST DAY EXPERIENCE AT THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION ..................... 23
2. THER OBSERVATIONS AND ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT AT THE RADIO . 24
3. A ONE WEEK TRAINING SESSION .......................................................................... 25
CHAPTER TWO: WORK DONE DURING INTERNSHIP ................................................. 28
1. THE EDITORIAL CONFERENCE .............................................................................. 28
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2. NEWSROOM CONFERENCE ...................................................................................... 28

3. COVERAGE OR FIELD WORK .................................................................................. 29
4. LEADS IN OF INTERVIEWS AND REPORT I WROTE THAT WENT ON AIR
DURING NEWSCASTS AT THE NATIONAL STATION ............................................... 35
5. NEWS PRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 37
6. TEAM WORK ................................................................................................................. 39
7. OTHER TASKS ASSIGNED AT THE RADIO ........................................................... 40
PART THREE: INTERNSHIP EVALUATION .................................................................... 42
CHAPTER ONE: LESSONS LEARNT DURING INTERNSHIP ........................................ 43
A) Recording ...................................................................................................................... 43
B) Editing ........................................................................................................................... 43
C) Writing .......................................................................................................................... 44
D) Punctuality and Time Consciousness ......................................................................... 44
E) Producing ...................................................................................................................... 45
F) Going on Coverage ....................................................................................................... 46
G) Others ............................................................................................................................ 46
CHAPTER TWO: DIFFICULTIES FACED DURING INTERNSHIP AND PROPOSED
SOLUTIONS. .............................................................................................................................. 48
CHAPTER THREE: REMARKS ON THE NATIONAL STATION ................................... 50
1. POSITIVE REMARKS .................................................................................................. 50
2. NEGATIVE REMARKS ................................................................................................. 50
CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................... 51
APPENDIX / ANNEX................................................................................................................. 53
BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................................................... 58
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INTRODUCTION
An internship is a professional learning experience that offers meaningful, practical work related
to a student’s field of study or career interest. An internship gives a student the opportunity for
career exploration and development that enables the intern to learn new skills.
It is much of a learning experience as it is work. Ideally, interns spend their time working with
experts, practicing the theory learned in school and equally learning about field realities, which
are somehow different from the school environment they have been through.
In the Advanced School of Mass Communication, ASMAC (ESSTIC in French), it is a

compulsory requirement that every student in each level and field of study, should carry out an
academic internship at any media enterprise of their choice. In level one it is important to carry
out an internship program in a print media because writing is the basis of the practice of
Journalism.
Level one has an internship duration of one month, level two has two months and level three has
a duration of three months which is followed by defence. It is on this basis that, we in our third
year in the field of journalism in ASMAC, decided to carry out a three months internship
program at the CRTV national station from the 12th of July to the 12th of October.
We chose the CRTV because, first of all, it is the number one media organ in all of Cameroon
with the most well trained experts in the field of Journalism. We believe that journalists here
know much about the professional practice of Journalism, that is when it comes to team work,
quality writing, good radio voices and the best news contents and presentation, and we have
actually learned a lot from them.
We chose the radio over the TV, News paper, or magazine to carry out our end of year’s
Internship program because, first of all our professional production will be carried out in radio
and that’s where I feel more comfortable.
My Internship Objectives
While choosing the CRTV National Station as the area of my final year internship, I had the
objective of learning how to be a professional in the journalism career. That is having the right
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attitude at the work place, writing and communicating in a professional manner, and as well,
ameliorating my way of dressing.
I was equally looking forward to observing and learning the professional relationship between
the reporters and presenters, producers and presenters, journalists and Editors in Chiefs and also
to observe the effectiveness of team work between the Newsroom staff at the Radio before
Broadcast time.
Our internship report will be divided into 3 parts. Part one will contain information on the
history, parts and program of our chosen media enterprise which is the CRTV national station as
well as its location.
Then we will move on to part two which will be our internship proper, that is, from the day we
set foot at the national station, to the tasks we were assigned to carry out. We will then proceed
with the internship evaluation where the lessons learnt, difficulties faced as well as remarks of
the media enterprise will be outlined. These will constitute the third part of our report.
To facilitate the division and proper understanding of the following internship report at the
Newsroom department of the National Station of the CRTV, we have divided all the parts into
chapters. After all of the above we shall then move on to conclusion to this report and then show
some samples of work done at the national station.
All these shall be contained in our level three end of year internship report as shall be seen in our
subsequent pages and paragraphs.

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PART ONE: PRESENTATION OF THE CRTV

NATIONAL STATION

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CHAPTER ONE: LOCATION, CREATION AND HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE

CRTV NATIONAL STATION.
1. LOCATION OF THE NATIONAL STATION
The CRTV Radio in Yaoundé is found around the Nlongkak neighbourhood, opposite the
Yaoundé Tennis club and beside the Ministry of External Relations (MINREX). Directly
opposite the building of the Radio house, we can also find the Yaoundé Town Hall, popularly
known in French as Hotel de Ville. The corporation head office is found at the CRTV
television production centre in Mballa II Yaoundé.
In total, there are 18 radio stations of the CRTV which are found in all the ten regions of
Cameroon. First we have the national station which broadcast news collected and sent from
all the other regions of the country, then we have the regional stations of the CRTV. They are
as follows: First we have the CRTV national station, FM 94, and CRTV Centre which are all
located in the same compound in Yaoundé. Then there are; CRTV Adamawa in the
Adamawa region, CRTV Littoral, CRTV East, CRTV North, CRTV South, CRTV west,
CRTV Far North, CRTV North West, CRTV South West, and for local stations there exist,
the CRTV Wave FM, Kousseri FM, Yagoua FM, Mount Cameroon FM, Suelaba FM and
Poala FM. The above stations are all part of the Cameron Radio and Television Media
Outlet.
2. CREATION
The Cameroon Radio Television commonly known by the abbreviation, CRTV, is a media
enterprise controlled by the Government and specifically supervised by the ministry of
communication (MINCOM), in Cameroon. It was first known as the CTV meaning Cameroon
Television. It later became known as the CRTV when it joined with the Radio as one of its media
outlets.
The history of the radio in Cameroon can be traced as far back as in 1941, when the French
Government put in place the first radio station in the country in Douala, with a transmission
capacity of 150 watts. Due to its usefulness and efficiency, it was made official in 1948 and
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Few years later, the radio was put under the control of the Overseas Radio Corporation
(SORAFOM), which then installed two radio transmitters (1 kilowatt medium wave and 4
kilowatt shortwave) in Yaoundé and its surrounding environs. It is thanks to this process that
public radio stations saw the light of day, beginning with Radio Yaoundé in 1955, and then
Radio Garoua in 1958.
3. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION
The first station of the CRTV was opened in Douala and it was known as the Child of War,
which had a graphical technic of 150 watts as first transmitter. Then later, a one Kilowatt
transmitter was installed in 1950 so as to increase its audience frequency.
Douala came under the control of the «Société de Radio-diffusion de la France D’Outre-mer
(SORAFOM). It was created to promote the production of programs as well as broadcast of
information by the local population. Two other radio transmitters of 1Kilowatt with short waves
in Yaoundé and other regions of the country were installed thanks to SORAFOM.
When Cameroon moved on to its independence in 1960, the National Station was put in place,
with head office in Yaoundé.
In addition to the radio stations that began existing at independence, other stations were set up in
order to get information closer to the population: Radio Buea in 1961, Radio Bertoua in 1978,
Radio Bafoussam in 1980, Radio Bamenda in 1981, Radio Ngaoundere, Radio Ebolowa and
Radio Maroua all in 1986.
With the birth of television in March 1985 (first images broadcast were those of the CNU
National Congress in Bamenda which led to the birth of the CPDM), Cameroon Television
(CTV) was put in place. This will be merged with Radio Cameroon in 1987 to form CRTV
through law no87/019 of December 17, 1987, laying down the regime of audio-visual
communication in Cameroon. Law no88/126 0f January 25, 1988 will come in to formalize the
organization and functioning of the corporation. A new organizational chart was adopted in
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The radio network of CRTV has expanded beyond the current ten regional stations to include
proximity radio stations such as Mount Cameroon FM in Buea, FM 94 in Yaoundé and others.
Since creation, CRTV has known four Directors General: Florent EILY ETOGA who was at
the helm of the corporation until 1988, Gervais MENDO ZE from 1988-2005, AMADOU
VAMOULKE from 2005 to 2016, and then Charles NDONGO who has been occupying that
position since his appointment on June 29, 2016.
The current building hosting the CRTV National Station was inaugurated on January 3, 1980, by
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CHAPTER TWO: PRESENTATION OF THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION
The CRTV national station is a government radio station that broadcasts information from all
other regions of the country for the general public. It is presently ran by the Central Director of
the CRTV Radio, Prof François Marc MODZOM, who had as predecessor George EWANE
NGIDE who equally took over from Allain BELIBI. He is assisted by other sub directors like
Valerie DIKOS OUMAROU amongst others and there are equally editors in chiefs and service
heads.
1. ORGANISATION AND FUNCTIONING OF THE RADIO
According to decree no 88/126 of January 25, 1988 that contains the organization and
functioning of CRTV, the organ is charged with the following missions:
 Conception, production, co-production and broadcast of information, audio-visual

products and programmes of didactic, cultural and legal character.
 Ensure conservation and preservation of national audio-visual patrimony and the
reception of signals.
 Ensure professional training of a certain category of audio-visual personnel, and
research on verifiable audio-visual content.
 Exploitation and maintenance of networks and installations destined for audio-visual
broadcasting.
To carry out these heavy tasks, the CRTV National Station has been partitioned into three main
departments: Department of Radio Programming (DAR), the Department of Radio Newsroom
(DRR) and the Department of Audio Technologies and Solutions.
I) Department of Radio Programming
Placed under the authority of a Director, Valerie DIKOS OUMAROU, this Department is in
charge of implementing the editorial policy content of the radio when it comes to newsgathering,
selection, treatment both in the technical and editorial domain, organisation, broadcast and
conservation of programmes in accordance with the laws, identity and cultural values of
Cameroon and with respect to the editorial line of the national station. The department of radio
programming has three other sub-departments which are as follows:

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The sub-Department of Radio Programmes and Programming, the sub-Department of

Specialized Shifts and the sub-Department of Archives and Audio Libraries.
Each of these sub-departments has defined missions and objectives that coordinate their
functioning are they are all under the guidance of a head of Department. The department of
Radio programming also coordinates different activities of production at the radio as well as it
coordinates the activities of the different desks or services to ensure the correct usage of the
editorial line.
- It plans and controls the quality of programs and information magazines to be broadcast
at the radio.
- It makes sure documents are signed and validates request of event coverage brought
from different ministerial offices and other places in the nation’s capital, Yaoundé and
other parts of the country. Then it organises the coverage of these events alongside
international celebrations or happenings.
- It supervises all both entertainment or animation programs as well as informative
programs.
- It supervises the production of news bulletins l, Magazines, special reports, Interviews,
and special guests for newscasts. All these while ensuring and maintaining good
behaviour of all actors involved in news production from pre-production to post-
production.
II) Department of the Radio Newsroom.
This department is equally placed under the authority of Director Valerie DIKOS OUMAROU
who is in turn assisted by a Deputy Director in charge of newsroom magazines Ebenezer
WINYA WOKO MOTALE. This department is concerned with the implementation of editorial
policy in the processing of current events and journalistic coverage of national and international
events. It coordinates activities of various Radio news desks so as to guarantee complementarity,
and optimize their effectiveness in relation to the regional network and thematic channels as well
as listeners expectations.
The Department of Radio Newsrooms is divided into the following sub-departments:
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This sub department is placed under the supervision of the daily news EIC Florence MEKE, who
coordinates all newscasts at the radio during the day, that is, from 6:00am to 6:00pm. With
respect to this, the editor in chief performs the following duties.
 Coordinates and supervises the coverage of events and production of daily newscasts
except during the weekends.
 Coordinates and chairs the newsroom conference that takes place every morning from
Tuesdays at 9:00am, where she makes known the menu of the day after consultation with
different chiefs of service for proposals and the Central Director of the Radio for
approval.
 She equally receives and signs invitations for coverage and follows the activities of
reporters and special envoys.
 Evening News ( Redaction du soir):
It is headed and supervised by the evening news EIC George KELONG who practically
accomplishes the same tasks as the daily news EIC except that his duties begin at 6:00pm and he
doesn’t have to hold another news conference in the evening.
But he coordinates and supervises all events covered in the evenings, the production of Good
content broadcast during the evening newscasts.
 Weekend and Public Holidays ( Redaction du weekend et des jours Fériés):
Placed under the control and supervision of the EIC Blaise Testelin NANA, he is in charge of all
news coverage and news production activities that take place during the weekends and public
holidays. The EIC here performs the following duties during the weekend session;
 He chairs and coordinates the newsroom conference during this period and makes known
the menu of the day that has been checked and approved by the Central Director of the
Radio.
 Assigns journalists to go to the field for coverage after the news conference and clarifies
them on their angles.
 Supervises and coordinates the production of all contents meant for the weekend
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 The Sports Desk
It is headed by a sports editor in chief. And this desk makes sure they are informed about all
sports news across the world. They are in charge of producing all information on sports in the
country and broadcasting sports news.
III) Different Desks or Services at the Radio
The CRTV National Station which is the main broadcasting house of the radio in Cameroon, is
also made up of specialised services which are placed under service heads. These services
include;
 Edition or Production Service:
This is a desk at the radio whose services cannot be done without, and it is very important for the
realisation of a newscast. This service is placed under a Chief of service TEKE Julius and it is
responsible for the following activities.
 This service is responsible for the preparation and production of Newscasts, Magazines,
Bulletins and all other information broadcast at the National Station.
 Ensures and cross-checks the use of the editorial line in the reports of journalists sent to
the field before broadcast.
 They make sure they go through reports sent from all the regions to see if they follow the
command given to them in the news menu. If not, producers have to correct theses
reports either by removing mistakes or cutting them short due to time constraints.
 They make sure to always accompany presenters during the time for news in order to
direct technicians on the elements to reduce, and which ones are to go on air first.
 The Rewriting service( English and French):
The service is entirely responsible for ensuring and verifying the use of appropriate language in
the different texts programmed to go on air at the national station. Journalists of this desk also
help presenters in rewriting leads while maintaining the different journalistic genres and
correcting both typing and grammatical errors.

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 The Political Desk or Service:
This service is headed by chief of service Albert NJIE MBONDE who carries out the following
responsibilities;
 Gathers all politically related news information and makes them worth news value
and proposes them for the menu of the day and they are in turn broadcast during
the newscast.
 Covers events or ceremonies related to politics both nationally and
internationally.
 Supervises the daily treatment of all international political topics for broadcast
and presents and animates political programs at the radio.
 The Economic Desk:
The chief of this service is Rachel NDJOCK MALONGO who coordinates all other journalists
working under this service and they are responsible for the coverage of all economic events
taking place throughout the country. This is the desk I was placed under. Journalists of this desk
include MOKI Neville, MUAM George, MANKA’ A AMBE, Rachel MALONGO just to name
but a few.
They often take part in the production of an economic program in both English and French Titled
“Economic Outlook”, where they broadcast economic related stories.
The chief of desk here gathers proposals on economic events and occurrences from journalists
both in and out of this desk and proposes them for the news menu along side two assigned
journalists both English and French speaking, to cover the event. This propositions are read
during the newsroom conference.
 Sports Service:
The head of desk here is Samuel BIYONG. The sports department is broad and large, hence it is
divided into sub sports departments so as to facilitate the work of journalists in this desk. We
have;
o The sports competition desk,

o The feminine football desk,

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o The world sports desk,

o And the sports Magazine desk.
This sports desk as a whole gathers and treats all information relating to sporting events, be it
football competitions both for male and female, handball, basketball, volleyball, cycling and
tennis. Journalists are dispatched to cover these events both Internationally and nationally.
 The Science and Society Desk:
As the desk name implies, this desk is responsible for the coverage and investigation of societal
issues which are of human interest both at the international and national level. The head of
service here is Nathalie MVOGO. The journalists here ensure the treatment of all these science
and societal information for broadcast during the various Newscasts.
Apart from the above desks at the national station we have mentioned there are still quite a few
which include;
 The Report and investigation desk ( head of desk, HD is Luc Bienvenue ONANA)
 The CEMAC Desk Whose service is Drusilla MOKOSSO JOKI
 The Regional News desk whose is Sardih LAWAN
 The Environmental desk Whose head is Line René BATONGUE
 The Culture and Media Desk headed by Valérie Essebe
 Lastly, the ICT desk headed by Claire Paule TOMO
IV) News Preparation At The Radio

 The Newsroom Conference:
This conference is held every day except Mondays which is the editorial conference from 9:00
am. It takes place in the newsroom which is found on the first floor of the national station.
Everyday, the news conference is chaired by Florence MEKE, the Editor in Chief for daily
newscasts and sometimes the EIC of evening news, George KELONG. While on Fridays it is
chaired by Blaise TESTELIN NANA, the EIC of weekends.

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This conference is vital for news production as it begins everyday with an evaluation of the
newscasts of the previous day, especially those of the 1:00pm, 3:00pm and the 5-6:00pm editions
so that criticisms can be made for a better practice of the profession.
The different producers of these news editions take turns in presenting how the newscast went
on, the difficulties they faced technically and editorial wise, reports that were aired and those that
either did not arrive on time or did not arrive at all. After this, the floor is given to different
reporters to make remarks or observations and probable solutions to the problems faced in the
newscasts of the previous day.
Next, one of the presenters of the morning edition be it English speaking or French, is chosen to
read the menu of the day so that everyone will know the events available for coverage and those
who are going. In this case, the EIC chairing the conference will also make precisions on the
command of the papers to be written from these events. For the events with no reporters yet,
some will be chosen either by the EIC or the Chief of Service if the event to be covered concerns
a particular service. Usually two reporters of both English and French arre programmed for a
common event .
 News Gathering (The Collect of Information)
After the news conference, the different reporters start preparing to dispatch themselves to their
various areas of coverage depending on the time the event is said to begin. There are two service
cars at the disposal of the newsroom, and when they are filled to maximum capacity, the other
reporters have to struggle on their own to get to the field or to reach the different sources to be
contacted in order to collect the necessary information. But recently when we arrived at the radio
due to the large number of reporters with only two cars, it was said that the radio will only carry
those doing investigative reports and those going towards long distances for coverage.
After gathering the information, the reporters return to the radio house and head, first, to the
“Ingest”, the cabin where all sounds, elements or feeds are transferred into the computer system,
before settling down in an editing booth where they can listen to their sounds collected and then
write their reports.

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 News Processing and Broadcast
At this stage of the production process, the reporters develop their stories based on the genre that
was prescribed during the news conference. The reporters normally have to begin by writing
straight stories meant for the news bulletin before they then write their report leads or Excerpt
lead. When the reporter is done with writing, the paper is submitted to a proof-reader to correct
and approve of the language used, and sometimes the content, before he/she proceeds to
recording it.
Then the reporter in question has to edit the story in one of the editing booths by mixing the
excerpts with the straight report or solicit the help of a technician when in difficulties or when
stranded. When this phase is completed, the reporter has to save the item, indicating his name,
the title of the element and the time of broadcast so that the report can easily be identified by the
producer when drawing the cart stark of newscast.
From here, the producer picks up the all reports or elements edited and saved and lines
them up on the cart stark, a disposition which is used for the news run down, for it to be
broadcast. Respect of the angle and duration of each item is exigent and the producer has the
prerogative and right to cut the report if it is too long and likely to interfere with the duration of
the newscast. Or if other important reports are too long, the reporter simply cuts the less
important ones short in order to maintain the balance and desired duration of the news edition.
It sometimes occurs that some events take longer than planned and since reporters run out of
time, they are simply reprogrammed for the next news edition. Another case is that of the
regional reporters or special envoys sending unedited reports due to lack of time or editing
facilities, and the producer has to edit them on her own before broadcast.

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CHAPTER THREE: REQUIRED SETUPS FOR NEWS PRODUCTION AT THE CRTV

NATIONAL STATION AND PROGRAMS BROADCAST.
1) REQUIRED SETUPS FOR NEWS PRODUCTION

 The Newsroom:
This is a room at the CRTV National Station where there is a round table with a good number
of chairs meant for all journalists to sit and take part in news conferences. There are other
white smaller chairs where the newly recruited journalists and other Journalists with no posts
of responsibility sit. On that round table, there are always papers of the different newscast of
the previous days, one side for English Newscasts and the other side for the preparation of
the French newscasts.
The newsroom is essential for the preparation of news as this is where both editorial and
newsroom conferences are held to deliberate on the topics to write on for the day, share those
topics to different journalists for coverage and explain their angles of treatment.
 The Broadcasting Studio:
This is where news is being broadcast at the radio. It is made up of two rooms, The firsts is the
audio console where there is a technical operating system and a computer used by technicians to
play elements or reports on air, to increase volume, and to press the on air button when the
presenter is about to present news.
The second room is made up of a small round table with chairs and microphones meant for
program presentation and the radio. This side of the studio equally has a computer where
presenters can be able to verify that the elements in the machine are actually those of their
rundown, if not, they can lead the technician on elements to take first that will go on air.
The studio is the last requirements for news production as it is where the last stage of news
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 The Recording booths:
These are little units at the national station where journalists record reports for eventual editing
and then broadcasting. These units have a machine each and a microphone with a little technical
console for recording. These recording boots can also be used for editing, but only if they are
free with no other journalists wanting to edit. There are about three of them at the radio.
 The Editing booths:
These are units at the radio where computers containing the radio’s editing software Radio assist,
are placed so that journalists can sit and edit their feeds after returning from coverage and
transferring their feeds through Ingest. There two editing machines found in the newsroom also
to facilitate the work of producers who can work with presenters and edit sounds at the same
time without having to displace themselves over long distances.
 INGEST:
This is the unit through which raw sounds and reports are being uploaded in the computer control
system before any editing is done at the booths.
This unit is made up of two machines, one which receives the raw sounds either by email or
recording and the other which is linked to all the other computer systems in the radio that
receives the sounds from the first machine and then all the other machines at the radio have it
NOTE: There are two broadcasting studios at the radio. There is the main one where news is
usually presented which is broadcast live, and the second studio is meant only for recording. But
there is a live musical program that is broadcast there every Fridays as from 9:00 am.
2. PROGRAMS BEING BROADCAST AT THE RADIO
There are a lot of programs that are being broadcast at the radio everyday from Mondays to
Sundays as the radio has no weekend. The programs differ with reference to the time of the day,
and their departments. These programs can be animations, magazines, documentaries as well as
news programs. An example of some programs at the CRTV are; Day break, les Matinées de la
CRTV which was presented by Lilian YASSEDI when we arrived for internship and then Blaise
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There were other programs like Luncheon Date, Cameroon Calling and Economic outlook.
When it comes to news or strictly information wise, their programs are as follows;
 The Morning News
This news cast was presented in both English and French.
There were two English journalists when I arrived at internship at the time based on their
rooster. Firstly, it was done by Rita YUOSEMBOM and then, Patience WIRNGO later took
over. There were two morning editions which were at 5:00am and at 6:30am then there is equally
a news summary at 8:30 am where they had to just give a recap of the major headlines or straight
stories they had during their previous news editions. And not forgetting the English sports news
that took place at 7:30am.
For the French morning editions, they were also presented by two journalists when I arrived,
Lolita BILOA and Sylvain YANGMAN. Both of them equally presented two news edition and
then did a French news summary at 8:30am as well. There was also the sports news presented by
Samuel Désiree AYANG.
The exceptionality of the morning news edition was that they always had to present fresh news
and ensure the attractiveness and dynamism of their segments.
 The Afternoon Edition
This edition was presented by Rachel MALONGO for the French edition that took place at
1:00pm when I arrived for internship. And for the English edition at 3:00pm, I witnessed
MANKA A AMBE Glory, TEKE Julius, George KELONG and Belinda SHO presenting the
newscast. Not forgetting the regional newscast presented by Joyce Cliff TATAH and FELAH
Keziah. Within the 3pm news, the bulletin has been presented by Ngoningeh SWAIBOU
SHAREH and Patty AKO DEFANG.
These afternoon editions at the national station are being controlled by the EIC for day news
Florence MEKE and that of Weekends Blaise TESTELIN NANA.

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 The Evening Newscast
The first and most important evening newscast is the 5pm bilingual newscast that is usually
presented by Drusilla MOKOSSO JOKI due to her extremely bilingual skills and nature, but I
also observed that the 5-6pm news was being presented by George KELONG, the EIC of
evening news. The evening newscast is in charge of;
 Identifying the Radiophonic contents that corresponds to the editorial chart of the
evening newscast.
 Produce and presents the Radiophonic contents of the newscast, while using some
content from the newscast that either were not used or are just important for re-
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CHAPTER FOUR: IDENTIFICATION OF THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION
1. PROFILE OF THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION
Name: CRTV National Station.
Date of creation: December 17, 1987.
Frequency: FM 88.8.
Format: General information.
Owner: State of Cameroon and is controlled by the Ministry of Communication ( MINCOM)
Language of Broadcast: English and French
Time of Broadcast: 24/7. That is, no weekend and no public holidays for the national station.
Target: Cameroonian population and beyond.
Editorial Policy: Safeguard general interest, cultural/linguistic diversity and explain government
action to the population.
Location: Nlongkak, Yaoundé.
Slogan: The Heart of the Nation
Scope: CRTV has ten regional stations, plus other broadcasting units and commercial stations.
Website: www.crtv.cm
Status: 3rd category Para-statal.
Director General: Charles NDONGO.
Central Director of the National Station: François Marc MODZOM.
2. EDITORIAL LINE OF THE NATIONAL STATION
Still according to decree number 88/126, which was passed in January 1988, the CRTV national
station was entrusted with the responsibility of being a state owned media enterprise with the
main functions of Informing, Entertaining and Educating the Cameroonian population. Prior to
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the national territory made to suit the cultural patrimony of the country. The CRTV has the
following objectives;
 Conceive, produce and broadcast informative, educative and entertainment programs.

 Carry out audio-visual research and create products which are dynamic and reflect all the
cultural characteristics of the country.
 Serve public interest.
 They also have the objective of showcasing the cultural and socioeconomic potentials of
the country.
 To respect state authorities and institutions.
 Respect and show solidarity to each clan, tribe, ethnic group, religion and colour in the
country.
 Objectivity and transparency in the dissemination of information.
3. LOGO OF THE CRTV
CAMEROON RADIO TELEVISION

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PART TWO: INTERNSHIP PRESENTATION AND

EVOLUTION

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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION AT THE NATIONAL STATION, OBSERVATIONS

AND ONE WEEK OF TRAINING.
1. FIRST DAY EXPERIENCE AT THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION
On the first day we stepped in the national station which was the 12th of July 2022, we arrived at
the radio on a Monday and had to wait at the balcony on the first floor for directions on how we
were going to start the day. We later found out that there was an editorial conference in the
newsroom which usually takes place every Mondays between directors, editors in chiefs and
various desk heads as well as other journalists of rank.
We were later welcomed by the Editor in Chief of morning and day Newscast for the week,
Madam MEQUE Florence when we went to her office to notify her of our arrival. She then
made us understand that the national station is a government controlled radio station and that we
need to take some time to observe the daily activities of the station, and that we all had to be
present the next day which was a Tuesday for the newsroom conference, where she would
properly introduce us to the other journalists who were going to work hand in glove with us. .
But while observing, we inserted ourselves in the production department of the newsroom
because we were told that it is the basics and very important for us to learn while at the radio.
During production, we will most often copy leads of journalist from the other regions as well as
those in Yaoundé who were still on the field but sent their leads to the producer of the newscast
through WhatsApp.
And then, we will write foreign stories for the news bulletin of the 3pm newscast which at the
time was presented by NGONINGEH SWAIBU NSHARE an the news cast presented by
MANKA A AMBE. For the foreign stories, we were told to use BBC because it is a very reliable
source of information and update their stories every hour to correspond with newness and
freshness. And we focused mostly on African news because it is closer to Cameroon and will
interest our listeners more than world news.
We observed mostly continuously for the day, and watched how journalists prepared their reports
for the newscasts according to the subject and angle given them,, how producers had to make
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and if they respected the demanded duration. If the reports sent by journalists either from the
regions or from special envoys were long, the producers had to cut and re-edit the report and then
do the cart stark or the rundown where they arranged reports in order of how they were going to
be launched on air.
If the 3pm newscast was too full, some of the reports will be moved to the 5pm bilingual
newscast presented by Drusilla MOKOSSO JOKI. Which marked an end to our first day at the
CRTV national station.
2. THER OBSERVATIONS AND ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT AT THE RADIO
As we spent more days on observation, we found that all journalists at the radio edited their feeds
and reports all by themselves. There were few technicians at the radio and if the work was to be
done by them, it was going to be to penalise the newscasts as they wouldn’t finish on in time
considering the number of reports every newscast at the national station demands.
When we equally came in to the national station, we observed that most journalists who had been
there were all going on leave except one which was the presenter of the 5pm bilingual newscast.
When we asked Madam Drusilla MOKOSSO JOKI why she was not going on leave as well, she
then explained that, the 5pm newscast requires someone who is extremely bilingual like her as
presenter, to present the news in both English and French, but no others were like her at the
radio.
After these days of observation, we had to begin serious work and all of us could not be under
the production service together, so we went to the head of service desk TEKE Julius and he sent
us to different services, I was sent to go to the economic service where I met the service head
Rachel MALONGO, who asked me to work in close collaboration with the journalists of the
desk who were English speaking like MOKI Neville and MUAM George, but I also worked with
Séraphin Njikam and was once at the field with Mr. Christopher as well.
After some days spent at the radio, we the interns had a special meeting with the Central Director
of the CRTV Radio, François Marc MODZOM which was in the presence of the Director of the
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During this meeting, the CDR took it upon himself to welcome us for our internship and to
explain to us some peculiarities about the national station and why we are lucky to have been
accepted for our internship program there. He equally explained to us why interns are not
allowed to go on air and that only those of the third year level can go on air.
He ended the meeting by also giving us a couple of advices while telling us to maintain good
conduct and behaviour as he said a list of presence will circulate every morning during the
newsroom conference where every intern is supposed to write their names and sign. To this
effect, two perfects were selected to control this activity, one English speaking and the other
french speaking.
Also, with the explanation that some interns come when they want and sometimes return home
without doing any thing tangible, the editor in chief of morning news Florence MEKE with the
instructions of the CDR told us interns that we will be writing our names on a book every day.
That is, when we come for internship, we are supposed to write the time we arrived, the activities
we carried out and tasks done and then the time we leave the radio.
3. A ONE WEEK TRAINING SESSION
Due to our presence at the CRTV National Station for internship, the Editor in chief of weekly
morning news, Florence MEKE deemed it necessary that we learn everything necessary in the
production of news, so she organised editing classes for all the interns with technicians. During
this period, we met with different technicians in charge of various areas at the studio, Ingest, the
editing console, the recording console and the broadcasting studio.
The first thing we were made to understand when we got to our classes was that there are many
editing applications for sounds, but the CRTV has a special one installed in all it’s machines that
could rarely be found in other radio stations, it is called Radio Assist. We were sent to Mr
Achille FOUDA, who then divided us into two groups of four and placed us under two different
technicians for our first class, where we learned how to record sounds at the recording console,
how to edit them ourselves by cutting out mistakes and removing spaces or our breath in the
report. We were told that there were two ways our report could get into the computer which are
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 INGEST
The Ingest console at the CRTV National Station, is the only place where reports can be sent.
First of all, every machine at the national station is inter-connected making it easy for a journalist
to find his or her report in any of them. Ingest has two computers or servers, one which receives
sounds either by downloading through mail or manually by recording from the sound collecting
device and the other to receive all downloaded and recorded sounds from the first machine and
then the other machines will automatically have the downloaded sound.
There is another Ingest which goes only for sound recording, that is, recording from a device like
the first Ingest and recording of a journalist’s voice. Here you can equally edit your sound after
recording.
During our editing class, we were told the different categories of sound present in the machine.
We have the raw sounds, edited sounds, masterised sounds, and ready to be broadcast sounds.
 Raw Sounds :
These are sounds that have just been recorded onto the machine and either need editing or
masterising ( Masterisé), This is because a sound can be transferred with no flaws and it’s
already ready for broadcast, so the journalist who transferred the sound has to masterise it for the
producer of the newscast to be able to easily find it for the rundown of the news. When
masterising the sound we need to mention the edition of newscast in which that sound will be
used for, that is 6:30 am, or 3pm or 5pm.
 Edited sounds :
These are sounds on the machine that have been edited after download or recording so that they
can be used for the news. By editing here, we mean that errors in the sounds have been removed
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 Masterised or saved sounds
These are recorded sounds that have been edited and masterised. The act of masterising a sound
is actually the saving requirements which involve putting the title, correspondent, time of
broadcast, news edition, language and date. This makes the report easy to find.
 Ready to be broadcast sounds:
This just shows that the sounds have been edited, masterised and can now go on air.
OTHER LESSONS LEARNT DURING THE TRAINING PROGRAM
During this first class, we were also shown how to search for elements in the machine for urgent
use since there are too many sounds in the computer. We were always told to either search using
the name of the correspondent, the title of the sound, the date it was recorded or transferred to the
machine and time. All of these helps us find what we are looking for in the machine.
We equally learnt how to create a cart stark in the machine and save it such that it goes on air
when need arises. But we discovered that some machines at the radio cannot send elements on
air so we had to make sure we used the correct machines.

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CHAPTER TWO: WORK DONE DURING INTERNSHIP
1. THE EDITORIAL CONFERENCE
On Mondays there is always an editorial conference either chaired by the Central Director of the
CRTV Radio (DCR) François Marc MODZOM or by his co director (DR) Valérie DIKOS
OUMAROU. The editorial conference is usually In the presence of editors in chiefs, Desk or
service heads and senior reporters, other normal journalists and interns are not allowed to attend.
The meeting consist in discussing issues or cases about journalists performances, programming
of journalists in their different tasks for the week and also evaluating work done throughout the
week when it concerns newscasts. I always attended these conferences to take note when
journalists were sent on coverage so that I could ask to assist them. I equally attended the
conference so that I could get the critics and corrections of the newscasts of the previous day, so
I can learn more.
2. NEWSROOM CONFERENCE
Before the day begins, there always has to be a conference in order to do auto critics of the
newscasts of the previous day’s and those of the morning before moving on to the menu of the
day so that journalists reporters can get clarification on their various subjects before going on
coverage. This newsroom conference takes place everyday from 9:00 am in the morning and I
always took part in it, it was chaired by the Editor in chief(EIC) for the day MEKE Florence, on
Fridays we had the EIC in charge of weekends and public holidays and for evenings, we have
George KELONG.
During this conference, Interns and other young or Junior reporters would sit on the little white
chairs surrounding the table while the senior journalist , senior reporters and desk heads will sit
on the round table with the EIC in charge. The EIC will then pass a list of presence for the
journalists to write their names because it was an important part of the conference.
Then journalists who presented the 5am, 6:30 am newscast and 8:30 am news summary will say
how it went alongside the challenges they had in either preparing for the news or during the news
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presentation so that together solutions can be proposed. Then, the floor is given next to the
producers of the previous day’s to give accounts of the newscasts as well.
After this, one of the journalist is asked to read the menu of the day out loud so that everybody
gets his or her task for the day, ask questions regarding his or her subject then get clarification so
they can work on the field with ease. During this conference, the EIC said interns are free to take
down notes bring ideas and propose human interest stories that can be added to the menu and
used for the newscasts.
Later on, interns started having their own list to mark the names of those who attended the
newsroom conferences, since we were told to always be present for the conference and in time.
After the conference, we could propose to follow the journalists going on the field to not only
assist them on coverage but to equally write our reports that would be corrected by them, then we
will record and edit ourselves.
3. COVERAGE OR FIELD WORK
 We were given the opportunity to follow journalists to the filed for coverage. My first
coverage on Tuesday 2nd August 2022 which was at the MINDCAF with a journalist
called Rose COCO. It was an installation ceremony for appointed post holders for the
Central services of MINDCAF and it was chaired by the minister Henri EYEBE AYISSI.
The ceremony which ended with the installation of over 30 people was animated by comedians
and artists who kept the invitees and personalities relaxed. After the event, we went back to the
newsroom and I wrote a report on it and gave another English journalist to correct since I was on
the field with a French journalist.
 I was assigned to go on coverage with a MOKI Neville one of the journalists at the radio.
We went to the ministry of small and medium size enterprises where the minister
ACHILLE BASSILEKIN III received the American ambassador to Cameroon Mr.
Christopher John LAMORA to discuss partnership between the US and Cameroon when
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They discussed on how the US can help Cameroon with some ideas and training so that
Cameroon products can be very recognised in the international market. After the meeting ,
journalists from different press organs gathered around to get interviews or feedback from the
meeting since it was a private meeting. After this I was asked to write a paper for Mr Moki to
correct.
 Also, on the 4th of August 2022, the minister of arts and culture received the German
ambassador to Cameroon and they evaluated how far the relationship between the two
countries have gone so far. In this case the German ambassador mentioned or admitted
that Cameroon students constitute a great community in Germany and that she is
impressed with the cultural diversity of Cameroon after visiting Douala and other parts of
the country..
To this effect, the inspector General to the ministry of arts and culture coordinated a session
where, he gave the floor to spokesmen working at the ministry who spoke about their artistic
relationships and how they have been successfully collaborating with the Germans in their
various areas of justification or domains of specialisation. I wrote a report and gave it to an
English speaking journalist who made corrections after which I recorded my paper.
 Another field work I was assigned to do at the CRTV, was on the international beer day.
This days is celebrated on the 5th of every August and set aside to enjoy beer with friends
and family, unite the world by celebrating the beers of all nations together on a single
day and to celebrate beer producers all around the glob.
For this I went to the field accompanied by a level one student from the University of Buea on
internship as well, and we visited numerous bars along the road in the Nlongkak neighbourhood
to find out if most of them even new about the existence of this international day which was
exactly the case.
I wrote a report trying to bring out beer consumer’s indifference towards the existence of the day
and the fact that people do not even know about the existence of the world beer day. Many
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money in their pockets and not the international beer day. But that, they remain great full to
those who brought about beer.
 During a newsroom conference, a French journalist, Séraphin NJIKAM, was

programmed from the menu to go to the field alongside an English speaking intern to
bring feeds for the 3pm newscasts and I was chosen. For this event, a convention was to
be signed between MINEPAT and some Turkish business men with the objective or aim
of promoting local or Rural development. But when we arrived there at the ministry, we
discovered that the convention signing event was counselled so we had to return to the
CRTV National Station.
 At Mont FEBE, there was a closing ceremony for a two days workshop of the
Constitutive General Assemble for the platform of promoters of locally made flour in
Cameroon. It had began the previous day with the presence of state ministers and was
presided over by the minister of Economy, planning and Regional development. But
during the closing of the workshop, a representative of Minepat chaired and closed the
event which was the first elective general assembly for this platform of promoters.
During this workshop, a new president for the national flour cooperation, Mr. George
BANDA was elected.
Having examined the efforts put in place for the production of local flour, the Minister of
Finance divided to lend a helping hand to the cooperation. Meanwhile the minister of Economy
highly applauded their efforts to help in the country’s development given that the flour project
has been going on for more than five years. The aim of the assembly was to examine Ways in
which they can ease the mass production of local flour made from cassava and other products so
that by the year 2030, Cameroon can start exporting home made flour to the diaspora.
After this event I wrote a report Which was corrected by MOKI Neville whom I accompanied to
the field and then I recorded my report and edited it after transferring the collected sounds or
feeds to the machine.
 One of the field works I did during internship was at the ministry of economy planning
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project to ameliorate the functioning of the civil state registration system in Cameroon
with the Brazilian ambassador to Cameroon. I and another student on internship
accompanied MOKI Neville for this event.
During the conference, Brazilian ambassador Patricia Maria OLIVEIRA LIMA, said Cameroon
is one of their close friends in Africa and she wishes for more projects in other domains and that
the relationship between the two countries continue to remain strong. Brazil’s aim here was to
help Cameroon in the social and health domains as well as development as Brazil has a strong
experience and has been able to reduce less than 1% of the level of non registration in its
environment.
The director of civil status registration of Cameroon was equally present and said that, over 1.6
million children were enrolled in schools for the 2022 academic year without birth certificates.
All this information constituted the report I wrote and gave the journalist to correct so that I
could continue practicing and recording my report in order to get better in writing and have a
better radio voice than the one I came in with.
 I went to the field again with a level one intern in the light of the back to school
effervescence and this report was my first edited report to go on air. I went to the
Yaoundé Central market to find out changes made by shop vendors to adapt to the
years school resumption. I actually found a shop called Nogima, selling school items
that had to build two tents in front of it in order to accommodate the mass availability
of customers which made the shop crowded.
The shop equally made sure of the available of new brand products because they said parents like
to see new designs of products that will intrigue parents to buy, and they equally made price
discounts for their products.
Another vendor said he used to sell male underwear, socks and others but due to the back to
school season, he started selling water bottles, lunch boxes, umbrellas and school bags for
children because that it is what was selling at the moment. I wrote a report and edited it with the
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 I went to the field with a journalist Christelle BOUDJEKA to get some interviews from
the Head of Arts and National languages and cultural department at the ministry of
secondary education, Dr DJIAFEUA Prosper. He explained that teachers of national
languages are trained at ENS Yaoundé and that of Bertoua and they are equally trained
in cultural methodology.
From form one and two for the first cycle, what is done at that moment is mostly observation and
the fundamentals of Cameroon languages are learnt as well, the studies expand as the children
progress to higher classes.
 Another area of coverage I went to was Djeuga palace where I accompanied a

journalist from the sports desk Harrison ASHU and another intern. Here, was the first
edition of the women’s leadership summit which was in the presence of a
representative of the minister of women’s affairs and the family and another
representative of the minister of social affairs.
Bertha YENWO , the founder of the BERLA Meridian group and organiser of the event gave an
opening speech to welcome everyone. The day was commemorated under the theme “Bring out
the leader in you”. I later wrote a report when we got back to the radio which was corrected by
Harrison ASHU.
 I equally attended the 2022 second session of the national committee for the
rehabilitation and socio-economic re-insertion of persons with disabilities, presided
over by the Minister of social affairs, Pauline Irene NGUENE. The theme was “
Progress in Inclusive action and strengthening a legal institutional frame work for the
protection of persons with disabilities.
I took the speech of the minister and then took and interview of the representative of the disabled
persons during the event who explained that they are happy with the efforts the Cameroon
government has put in place to enable that they are inserted in the social an economic spheres of
the society. But she adds that when it comes to holding public positions in the government, they
are still lacking in those domains and even when it comes to higher education. I compiled these
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 In commemoration of the international day of peace which was the 21rst of September
2022, some French interns and I were sent to go on coverage at the Lycée Leclerc,
where an educative talk to maintain peace within school milieus was held. It was
organised and chaired by some non governmental organisations, like Ark of peace
which has as founder and president Elvis TEKE . They spoke to students about key and
fundamental elements to always practice in school so as to maintain peace.
I took the interview of Mr Elvis TEKE who in a nut shell said that the students should have
mutual understanding and respect for one another and practice non discrimination. This
constituted my feed for the 3pm news which I edited and then wrote a lead in for it.
 I went on coverage again with a French female Journalist to ENAM to cover the
patronage ceremony of the outgoing Resilience and fighting spirit batch. On this day,
they officially came under the patronage of the Director of the Hydrocarbons Prices
Stabilisation Fund ( HPSF/ CSPH) Mr. OKIE Johnson NDOH who spoke to them and
gave them a lot of advice of how they should prioritise the services of the country first
before themselves and to avoid bribery and corruption. The ceremony ended with the
handing over of certificates to the outgoing students and then some family pictures.
At the end of this event, I took interviews of both a male and female students on how they feel
about this event and their satisfaction of which the were very satisfied with all the advice Mr
OKIE gave them. Then I took the interview of Mr OKIE as well who was equally happy to be
able to impart knowledge on these students and was willing to journey with them through their
career on the field as their Chosen Godfather.
 Others: Other activities I covered were as follows; the minister of youth affairs and
civic education MOUNOUNA FOTSOU granted an audience to a delegation from
ELECAM to discuss collaboration between the two parties in future. Another one was
during a book launching ceremony at Hilton Hotel where Prof TOUNA MAMA
launched his book titled, “ Le circuit du développement” and prof François Marc
MODZOM was the moderator of the even. Those present were the representative of
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these few. All the above in a nutshell are events I have gone for coverage at during my
internship program at the CRTV National Station.
4. LEADS IN OF INTERVIEWS AND REPORT I WROTE THAT WENT ON

AIR DURING NEWSCASTS AT THE NATIONAL STATION
 LEAD IN OF INTERVIEW
The minister of Youth affairs and civic education, MOUNOUNA FOTSO, has invited all youths
and stakeholders, to mobilize themselves in order to promote volunteerism in Cameroon by
sharing their experiences in accordance with the law on volunteerism put in place by the
president of the Republic, Paul Biya in July 2022.
He made the call today, during the international fare for volunteerism and solidarity at the
Yaounde sports multi-purpose complex.
He was speaking in the presence of members of Government, Representatives of International

Organisations, Mayor of Yaoundé, Representative of French volunteers in Cameroon, the
Director of the International network for French volunteers and the French ambassador in
Cameroon.
In the following except of an interview selected by student journalist on internship, LOBTE

KEE, the minister of youth and civic education MOUNOUNA FOTSO, highlights the main
points of the event.
Some Educationists in say, Tolerance, Forgiveness and Respect are some of the important tools
that are necessary for the maintenance of peace within the school environment.
They were speaking in Yaounde today, during an educational talk, organised by a Non
Governmental Organisation (NGO) dubbed “Jeun Chambre Internationale” in partnership with
the Arc of Peace Organisation.

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In the following Excerpt of an interview selected by student journalist on Internship LOBTE

KEE, the founder and president of the ARC of Peace NGO, Elvis TEKE highlights the main
issues raised.
The principal of a special education school in Yaounde, COCO Bertin says, his institution has
registered more students two days into the 2022/2023 academic year compared to last year.
Speaking to the CRTV today, he attributed this increase to the rising consciousness many parents
are having on the need for all children to be educated despite their condition.
Here now is an excerpt of the principal of the principal of a special education school in Yaounde,
Coco Bertin giving the statistics of attendance of students this academic year as compared to last
year .
The excerpt was selected by journalism student on Internship, LOBTE KEE.
 LEAD IN OF REPORT THAT WENT ON AIR
Vendors in Yaounde have decided to adapt their businesses to the exigencies of this year’s back
to school.
Some sellers have completely changed the goods they have been selling in favour of school
related items, while others have simply increased their stock of school items.
 REPORT
The NOGUIMA provisions boutique at the Yaounde Central market has put in place tents filled
with school items, in order to accommodate customers who have increased in number. One of
the shop keepers says this initiative is a means to satisfy the high demands of customers while
reducing congestion in the shops. EXCERPT.

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This shop has equally decided to make available different types of school needs for customers so
as to avoid monotony and redundancy every school year. EXCERPT.
The vendors say clients are highly satisfied and in order to encourage people to buy more, they
have resorted to promotional sales of school items. EXCERPT.
Meanwhile others have completely shifted their line of business from other commodities to
school related items, simply because it is the back to school season or effervescence. EXCERPT.
Store vendors are doing everything possible to ensure the satisfaction of clients while
maximising profits as they prepare for the 2022- 2023 academic year.
 STRAIGHT STORY
The national Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development, is Organising a series of
sensitisation Campaigns, for students across the Country against recurrent acts of Violence and
Drug Consumption in Schools.
The General Manager of the National Civic Service Agency, Mr. TAOSSI, will Tomorrow 12th
October, Launch the third lap of the sensitisation Campaign in Doula, after the first and second
in Yaounde and Kribi.
Tomorrow’s Ceremony will be chaired by the Governor of the Littoral Region as from 12:00pm
at the Government High School Akwa, under the theme “ Prevention of Violence and Drug
Consumption in the School Environment, Guarantee of Responsible Citizenship for the
Achievement of the National Development Scheme for 2020- 2030.
5. NEWS PRODUCTION
 6:30 am news:
I started producing the 6:30 am news because I saw that the presenters of this newscast were
often left to carry the work load alone. When I arrive in the morning as from 5:00am, I 2ould
copy out the leads sent for the newscast, then rewrite straight stories so that they have the news
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event was to take place the next day, I will readjust the story adding the word to take place
Today so that the story is new.
After rewriting stories and copying out leads, I would go to the machine and check out reports
that were too long and cut them short enough to suit the news, and then edit other reports that
were to go on air. After that I would now create the 6:30 am rundown in the machine by aligning
the elements in order of how they are going to be aired. To avoid trouble, I had to always go
down to the studio to make sure that the rundown of the news is actually on air and can easily be
found by the technician, if not, then I had to make some readjustments.
Once it’s ok then I sit at the audio console with the technician while the presenter presents the
news. If the elements are too much, she tells me the ones I should take off the rundown to enable
the news end on time and not to go overboard. I produced the news for both Rita YUOSEMBOM
and Patience WIRNGO.
 The 7:30am sports news:
Even though I was never placed under the sports desk, I fully produced it’s newscast once and
participated in production again another time. During the first production, I edited a report that
was too long for the news given that it is supposed to have a duration of ten minutes, did the cart
stark of the newscast and then sat at the audio console of the broadcasting studio while the
presenter presented the news. After it, my name was called for news production.
 The 3:30 pm newscast:
For this newscast, the main producers were Kelly EBEN and Hortensia NTAINE. We the
interns assisted in the production. The producer would often receive the leads of reporters in
Yaoundé and those from other regions of the country and they will then send to our phones for us
to copy out on papers alongside straight stories.
Then when the presenter for the news bulletin would arrive we will write African foreign stories
to be read during the newscast. The foreign stories were supposed to be news that will interest
the Cameroonian public such as human interest of political matters that concerned Cameroon. If
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done the editing well and the producer will do the rundown in the machine and all of us will then
go down to the studio to listen to the news and further help the producer when there are
readjustments.
 The 5:00pm Bilingual news:
Most of the reports that are not usually taken for the 3pm news are sent to the 5pm news file. But
we often copy out leads that are meant for the 5pm news which is always presented by Drusilla
MOKOSSO JOKI in both English and French For the few times I had produced this newscast,
we had to make sure we corrected every little mistake the journalist must have made while
typing his or her lead
6. TEAM WORK
For the preparation of a newscast at the radio, there has to be team work for it to go in smoothly.
When it was time for us to prepare for the 3pm newscast, the producer would often receive leads
of reporters from the different regions around the country and since she cannot copy them out
alone she shares them to us the interns so that the work goes faster.
Whenever any of us faces difficulties in understanding some sentences in those leads which
sometimes are mistakes, we will ask the producer to enlighten us more on it so the lead could be
more understanding and clear for the presenter.
Also, there were sometimes that network would often be very poor at the studio for the
technician to be able to download some reports sent through email, so the producer at times since
she is busy editing other reports, I am sent to transfer the sounds or reports by recording so that
she can start working on it as soon as possible.
We equally used to help or assist each other right reports after coming back from the school.
Right from school, we were always told that when at the job site, as a journalist, always enable
that your colleague proofreads your report before you record and go on air. This is because, there
might be some mistakes you might have made while writing, be it grammar or spelling errors
without knowing. So we proofread each others report before giving the journalist at the Radio for
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7. OTHER TASKS ASSIGNED AT THE RADIO
Some times, Hortensia NTAINE after writing her report and couldn’t get any interviews in
English, would translate the things the people said in the excepts and then call me to come and
do voice overs for her report before she now edits it and it goes on air for the 3:00pm newscast.
Since I was producing the morning news which made me always arrive the Radio around 5:30,
we would prepare for the 6:30am news. One time the sports journalist who used to produce the
English sports news in the morning at 7:30 was running late, so he assigned me to help edit a
report and do the rundown of the 7:30am spots news which I ended up producing. I equally once
again co- produced the sports news with the intern under the sports desk.
Another task that I was given was to sit at the audio console an. Co- produce the 3:00 pm news
with Kelly EBEN since she had to run around and edit papers just arriving from out of Yaoundé
and send them on air urgently. I had to sit with the technician and tell him which report was to be
removed from the news menu when we were running out of time or when we had too many
reports for the news since the technicians were mostly French speaking and the presenters were
not supposed to talk too much while presenting. I had to be time conscious and inform the
presenter when I see that the time left is small to take all the elements we had, I felt the pressure
of the newscast.
Mr MOKI Neville would often assign me as well to fill in for him at an event when he had two
events to cover at the same time since we were both under the economic service. One was the
book launching ceremony of Prof TOUNA MAMA at Hilton hotel in Yaoundé which we
collected interviews for. And the other was at the patronage ceremony of the Enam students
where I collected interviews and took background sounds and sent for him to write a report for
Saturday since the event took place on Friday and ended late .
The EIC, madam MEKE equally gave us the task of listening to the news editions of the CRTV
national station which were always doing and she would assign anyone during the newsroom
conference to give an account of the newscasts of the previous day. As journalists we need to
listen to our colleagues’ newscasts in order to be informed and also to see the errors made as well
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An important event that took place in the Country that required special programs and attention at
the CRTV was the arrival and visit of French President Emmanuel MACRON. His arrival was
commemorated with live reporting or stand-ups of journalists at the CRTV. The program was
presented by the Drusilla MOKOSSO JOKI in collaboration with the Central Director himself
François Marc MODZOM and the Director of the Radio department, Valerie DIKOS
OUMAROU.
During this visit I was assigned to constantly go down to the studio to check if reports of
journalists had arrived. Later I went to the audio console to watch how the technicians played
live reports on air.
Another task I was assigned to do by the Director of Edition, TEKE Julius was to write a straight
story out of a press release that arrived for the 3pm newscast. After writing the straight story, I
looked for him and he corrected the little errors I made of which I rewrote the story on a clean
piece of paper and handed it over for the news.
I was assigned by the EIC of day news Florence MEKE, to go on coverage with two other level
two French interns to cover an educational talk that was planned by some non governmental
organisations to sensitise some chosen schools about peace. This was in communication of the
world peace day that was to take place the following day September 21rst 2022.
Upon arrival at the said college, we discovered that the proprietor of the school had not fully
accepted this visit. By so doing she refused that that the talk be held in her building. So one of
the NGO founders took us to the lycée leclerc where the talk began really late. And the next day,
they were to proceed to the Etoug Ebe lycée to continue their sensitisation.
I took the interview of the founder of Arc of Peace and wrote a lead in for the 5:00pm bilingual
newscast.

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PART THREE: INTERNSHIP EVALUATION

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CHAPTER ONE: LESSONS LEARNT DURING INTERNSHIP
When we began our internship program at the CRTV National Station, there were a lot of things
we were ignorant about and others we had no experience on, but we have come a long way on
what the professional field really looks like, with all the pressure, and some last minute changes
that are often done during a newscast .
A) Recording
While at the radio on internship, during our one week of editing classes, we were showed and
thought how to record sounds in the machine in two ways. The first way was recording our
voices after editing our reports, while the second was recording recorded sounds from a our
recording device. The second way came in handy when the internet network was slow for us to
send the sounds through email or when we didn’t have data at all.
B) Editing
Firstly, thanks to my internship experience at the national station, I have perfected my skills in
editing good reports. When in school, we were thought that a journalist editor should be a
complete journalist, that is, master grammar and most importantly, the subject matter so as to
know the relevant information to keep when editing a report. Also, during ICT classes, the
teacher would mention that the application that is good for us to edit our sounds in was Adobe
audition, but when we were given Radio assignments such as doing newscasts, I often edited my
report myself through a different application of choice Lexis audio editor but I was not perfect in
it. Buy being at the radio, made me perfect my editing skills since I was always constantly
editing reports for the news.
The great deal here, is that I learnt how to be able to carefully select a feed from an entire sound
collected according to my angle of treatment and lead and the cut it out and edit the space and
errors. Because, when editing some reports that were too long to go on air, most at times, we
discover that most of the information in the report is important, so we had to cut out or trim it
with care. I made sure to follow the inverted pyramid and when It felt like the reporter had given
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We also edited feeds or interviews, either for them to go on air, or to write a lead in to
accompany then. I always edited the interview according to my chosen angle of treatment and
most of the times, I had to remove statements in interviews made by resource persons like, “we
all know, you know, as usual, most at times” and many other statements that may not be
pleasing to the listeners ears.
I also discovered that mixing in the phone was different from mixing sounds on the machine and
that every audio editing application had its method. When using Radio assist, the application of
the CRTV national station, I learnt how to do voice overs, insert my interviews after recording
my report, how to equally insert spaces after cutting out the breathing in the report and how to
optimise the sound at the same time not making it started in the machine.
All these are my lessons from editing during my internship program at the national station for the
period of three months.
C) Writing
One of the most important things I have learned throughout my internship period is ameliorating
my writing skills when it comes to reports, leads, straight stories and foreign stories.
In school we were taught to use the four WH and H questions (Who, What, When, Where, and
How) as well as the inverted pyramid when writing and I have always done my best in applying
that when writing. But when I came to the national station for internship, I learned something
important about the inverted pyramid which means putting the most important information of an
event first.
I learned and understood that when choosing the most important information, I should also look
at its impact on my listeners, that is, the most important information of an event is what concerns
the public directly, not just what happened. With this, my skills in writing got better than before.
D) Punctuality and Time Consciousness
At the national station, I learnt that this is a key factor in the realisation of a newscast, from
attending the news conference, to the dissemination of news. It was greatly important to be time
conscious during the newsroom conference because when you come late and you were
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programmed for an event, you might miss attending that event which will in turn be a hindrance
to your report and to the newscast as a whole.
I also learnt that being in time for news preparation is very essential and makes the presenter
avoid repetition on air and makes he or she go through his or her papers thoroughly before going
on air. I equally learnt that it is not advisable to run into the studio to present a newscast when
late because it will cause heavy breathing when on air. That is why punctuality is very important
at the radio.
E) Producing
As an intern who produced the 6:30 am news, assisted in the production of the 7:30am sports
news, 3:30pm news and the 5:pm news, I have learnt that it is very important to master editing
skills, as well as writing and Grammar skills. This is because producers spend their time editing
reports that come in from different regions of the country as well as copying out leads that
equally carry mistakes sometimes. So I learnt and ameliorated my skills in these domains.
Also as a producer, I learnt to be vigilant. When producing the 6:30 am news the journalist
presenter, Patience WIRNGO taught me to always listen carefully so as to remove any parts of
the report where the reporter said “Yesterday” OR “Today” that didn’t correspond with the day
we were broadcasting the report.
I also had to be vigilant at the audio console with the technicians because some of them had
difficulties hearing and understanding what the presenter was saying from inside if there were
any reports to remove. Another scene where I have learned to be vigilant is when the technician
gets distracted during the newscast and a report is about to be launched, I have to remind him or
her. Sometimes the technicians also find themselves sleeping during the newscast probably when
they are those of the night shift, so I learnt to be vigilant in this case as well.
Moreover, I have learned that a producer needs to be flexible enough when it comes to
multitasking. Also learnt sportive because some times while editing I can discover that a report I
sent through Ingest hasn’t been downloaded yet and there is much time left, so I have to hurry
down and remind or tell the technician in charge to either download or re-download so I can
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F) Going on Coverage
One very important thing I learnt when going on coverage with journalists was never to depend
on a colleague for sounds except when you have not much of a choice. This is because there are
always chances that your sound recording device collects very good sounds than the other’s
device. Also, anything might go wrong, so it’s better to each gather sounds even if both of you
have the same sound, you might not have the same angle of treatment.
Also on coverage, I learnt that it is always good to start writing your lead when still at the area if
the event because then, the ideas and facts are still fresh in your mind. And I learnt to always
carry facemasks when ever I am assigned to go for an event. Even if a lot of people assume that
COVID 19 no longer exists, there is still a strict respect of barrier measures at state institutions.
G) Others
There are quite a lot of lessons I have learnt during my internship program at the national station
that will be enumerated as follows;
 At the national station, I learnt to be humble to all journalists and even to the cleaners
around, because we always learn everyday from one another.
 I equally greatly learnt and understood the difference between the writing style of radio
and that of newspaper writing. This used to confuse me when I just arrived at internship,
but as time went by, and with the guidance of some journalists who always insisted on it,
I came to understand the two different writing skills.
 I also learnt to be more patient especially with journalists from the regions, special
envoys and those still on the field who had not yet sent their reports when the news was
about to start. This is because I got to understand the constraints journalists face on the
field and that they can send their reports even when the newscast has already begun. The
producer just had to be dynamic and insert those recently received reports in the
rundown.
 Last but not the least, I learnt the spirit of team work as it is essential for the prosperous
success of any enterprise in this case the media enterprise. One can not do without the
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other at the radio, even if two journalists have personal problems, they will put the
problem aside and finish with the production of the newscast first before then can settle
themselves.
The above and more which are not stated, are the lessons I have learnt from my
experience at the CRTV national station during my internship. These lessons will not
only play a part in my future professional life but my personal life as well thanks to my
superiors or supervisors.

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CHAPTER TWO: DIFFICULTIES FACED DURING INTERNSHIP AND

PROPOSED SOLUTIONS.
Despite the fact that I acquired a lot of knowledge and ameliorated my skills during our
internship program, there were also other factors that acted as hindrance to our activities when it
came to news production, those factors shall be enumerated in the following paragraphs.
 Firstly, one of the most unpleasant constraint we had during internship was the available
poor network in the newsroom. Given the fact that the newsroom is used to prepare for
news, this is the one of the top places where connection and network should flow.
But instead, it was ironical that journalists when doing research had to go and stand on
the balcony for better network and go back to the newsroom. We interns, had to do this
most of the time since we needed to often use the internet to search for foreign news for
the news bulletin. This network constraint became a tiring factor for us.
For this difficulty, I suggest that they enable a review of the newsroom network, or they
create a WI-FI connection for all journalists working there to have access to whenever in
the newsroom and in need.
 Another issue we faced at the national station was lack of writing papers. Since we often
had to copy out leads, write foreign news, straight stories etc, we always had to go to the
offices of our supervisors to ask for typing sheets. But normally, there are supposed to be
papers in the newsroom for news production.
 My suggestion for this problem is that two packets of typing sheets be placed on the
newsroom table, one for French journalists and the other for English journalists. When
these papers are placed, a duration for their usage should be set so that the papers will not
be replaced until the set duration is attained. This will make journalists careful when
using the papers and it will equally avoid excessive expenditure.
 One difficulty I faced on the first I made a cart stark for Patience WIRNGO when
producing news was that I could not make the rundown go on air. We were running out
of time and immediately I made the cart stark I ran to the studio only to discover the

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technician couldn’t find it, so I told her and she immediately went to Ingest and begged
the technician to do it.
To solve the problem and make sure this mistake doesn’t happen again, after the newscast,
the presenter showed me that after am done making the cart stark, before I save it I should
click on urgent in the computer and equally refresh before I click on save. Then, I wouldn’t
have to worry anymore.
 Alongside journalists, we always had the problems of drivers not being around to take us
to the areas of coverage. Most times, we will wait for the drivers and due to fear of being
late for the events, we had to pay our own transport which was double cost on us interns
since we were not even working yet, especially over long distances.
This problem is a complicated one because the drivers equally cannot carry all journalists
to their destinations at the same time. So I just suggest that the drivers carry mostly
journalists going for coverage over long, dangerous and complicated distances.
 Another difficulty we faced was the fact that, when there was no light and the generator
was put on, the editing machines at the newsroom still stopped working, thereby
hindering some journalists from editing their feeds as they are more in number than the
available editing machines.
I propose that, another generator be bought so it can supply enough electrical energy to
the newsroom and broadcasting studio as well.
 One time I was assigned to write by Mr. TEKE Julius to write out a straight story from a
press release that came only in French. I had problems trying to translate it at the same
time write a story out of it. Another time was when we were preparing for the 6:30am
news. Most of the time, the presenter Patience WIRNGO and I had to translate French
stories because the English versions were not there.
I suggest that before leaving the radio, journalists should always make sure to leave their
stories for morning use.

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CHAPTER THREE: REMARKS ON THE NATIONAL STATION
1. POSITIVE REMARKS
 What I noticed about the national Station that was outstanding, was the priority given to
good hygiene. There were cleaners who cleaned at least twice a day to make sure
journalists come to work under good hygienic conditions, as the saying goes “Cleanliness
is next to Godliness”.
 Another positive remark on the national station is the responsible coordination of work
and workers there. Everybody knows the task he or she is to do everyday.
 One positive thing at the national station that promoted interns was the fact that
presenters read their names on air as well for production. My name was read every
morning for production and in the afternoon for assistance in news production. This
really made me happy. I equally wrote leads that were read on air and my name called.
 I also admired the cordial relationship between journalists and their colleagues as well as
the team spirit. When a journalist writes a report for example, he or she gives it to the
colleague to proofread and correct any error they didn’t unapprehend when writing. And
also the fact that journalists were eager to teach and work with us interns when we
arrived was so interesting and admirable.
2. NEGATIVE REMARKS
There were not many negative remarks about the radio, but the one I would like to outline was
the fact that interns were not allowed to go on air. But this was made understandable since the
Central Director held a meeting with all interns and explained that errors are not allowed on air
at the national station with credible reasons.
To enable interns practice going on air, I propose that the next badge of interns at the national
station can use the other studio for practice under the supervision of journalists to correct them.

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CONCLUSION
The above report is a combination of a three months internship program that began on the 12th of
July 2022 and ended on the 12th of October 2022 at the newsroom department of the enterprise.
On the first day we entered the national station, we did not know any one, but we came out of
our internship knowing a hand full of journalists who were willing and ready to assist us even
after our internship program.
The three months we spent at the radio was a while process of learning, ameliorating skills
already acquired and practicing by the side of professional and experienced practitioners in the
field of journalism, a career they have been practicing for years now.
This report as seen from the beginning, starts with an introduction that says why we are supposed
to carryout an internship program every year as a rule of ASMAC, the internship duration, the
reason for the choice of our media enterprise and how the internship report will look like.
The first part of our report as seen above, is the presentation of my chosen media enterprise, the
CRTV National Station. This part is divided into four chapters. The first chapter finalising on the
creation, localisation and historical evolution of the radio. The second chapter emphasises on the
presentation of the national station, that is, the Organisation and functioning of the radio that
brings out the different parts of the radio and how they function in news production. Chapter
three of this part talks about the major setups at the radio used in the production of newscasts and
the different programs broadcast at the radio.
Moving on to the next part of our report which is the presentation of our internship program, as it
has been shown above, this part is equally divided into chapters, one and two. The first chapter
presents our first day experience when we arrived at the radio broadcasting house, the various
observations we started making from the first day and for other days we kept coming to the
national station. Still in that chapter, we talked about our one week of editing classes which was
a huge privilege for all of us who did internship at the national station.

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Chapter two of part two of our internship report presents our work done throughout the
internship from attending editorial and newsroom conferences to field works we made with
journalists and then our work on news production which was the most interesting and lesson
acquiring for us. Then next is the tasks we were assigned by journalists at the radio.
Unto the third part of our internship report which is the last. This part is made up of three
chapters. The first chapter of this part has put together all my lessons learnt and the advantages I
gained while doing internship at the national station. The second chapter is a combination of the
difficulties I faced throughout my internship as well as proposed solutions. That is, when I
mention a difficulty I faced at the radio, I make sure to propose a solution immediately after the
problem has been described. The third and last chapter of this part just analysis remarks of the
national station, both positive and negative remarks.
After the presentation of my internship report comes a conclusion that gives a brief description
of how the internship report is structured.
Further after my report are examples of reports written, straight stories, foreign stories as well as
leads for interviews which will be under my appendix. Then we will have a bibliography of the
sources I consulted when writing my internship report. Not forgetting my acknowledgement
right at the top before my introduction where I appreciate all those who supported me through
out my internship and those who contributed to it as well as a list of abbreviations and acronyms
for better understanding of my report.
All of the above mentioned make a resume of My internship report conceived and written after
an internship program done at the CRTV National Station broadcasting house for a period of
three months from the 12th of July to the 12th of October 2022.

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APPENDIX / ANNEX
1) LEAD IN
The National Civil Status Registration Office in Cameroon has received the sum of 1.46 Billion
FRS from the Republic of Brazil.
An agreement was signed to that effect in Yaounde today, between the minister of Economy,
Planning and Regional Development, the Director of the National Civil Status Registration
Office, BUNEC and the Brazilian Ambassador to Cameroon.
REPORT
According to the Director of the Civil Status Registration Office in Cameroon, Alexandre Marie
YUMO, 1.6 million children all over the country were enrolled for the 2022 academic year
without Birth Certificates.
The same statistics show up to 400,000 children, in the Far North, 210,000 in the Center and
295,000 in the Littoral Regions of Cameroon respectively. Reason why the Government has
decided to ameliorate or improve the Country’s civil status registration system, beginning from
the Center and South Regions. EXCERPT.
To finance this project, the Brazilian ambassador to Cameroon, Patricia Maria OLIVEIRA
LIMA, through some Brazilian associations, has signed in the sum of 1.46 billion FRS CFA.
Meanwhile the nation’s BUNEC is to add up 200 million, 660 thousand, 350frs to complete the
financing of the project estimated at 1.7 billion FRS. EXCERPT.
The signing of this agreement between the Republic of Brazil and the Republic of Cameroon will
permit the government to ameliorate the functioning of the civil status system in Cameroon as
well as improve local and regional development.

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2) LEAD IN
George MBANDA has been elected as the new president of the Platform of Local Flour
Promoters in Cameroon, PROFACAM.
This was during the end of the first constitutive General Assembly of PROFACAM under the
chairmanship of the Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Alamine
OUSMAN MEI.
REPORT
The two days General Assembly for the promoters of locally made flour in Cameroon has ended
with the election of a new management body under the auspices of the Minister of Economy
Planning and Regional Development, Alamine OUSMAN MEI.
George MBANDA the new president of the national flour cooperation is delighted to be elected.
EXCERPT.
The minister of Finance having examined the efforts put in for the production of local flour
decided to grant some financial assistance to help the cooperation. Meanwhile the ministry of
Economy greatly applauds the efforts of this flour cooperation to help in the country’s
development.
Given that this flour project has been going on for more than five years now, the president, MR.
MBANDA is grateful that the Government has finally recognised their efforts and decided to
lend a helping hand. EXCERPT.
The aim of this assembly was to examine ways that can ease the mass production of flour, so that
by the year 2030, Cameroon can start exporting home produced flour to the diaspora. They saw
that one of their most faced problems is rising prices. EXCERPT.
With government assistance, hopefully the production of flour will grow and be a successful
activity in Cameroon by the year 2030.

INTERNSHIP REPORT
3) LEAD IN
Disabled members of the committee for the rehabilitation and socio-economic re-insertion of
persons with disabilities, have saluted efforts made by the Cameroon Government in ensuring
their reintegration into the social and economic spheres of life.
This follows an inter- sectorial meeting of the 2022 second session of the rehabilitation
committee that took place in Yaounde, to evaluate the social integration of persons leaving with
disabilities and see the work done so far
REPORT
In relation to the second session of the rehabilitation and socio-economic re-insertion of disabled
persons, the Cameroon government has opted to raising the awareness of actors, in the training
and recruitment chains of the country.
This is on the need to operationalise the text setting the terms and conditions for granting age
exemptions to persons with disabilities during administrative exams and recruitment into the
public service. To this effect, disabled members of this committee express their joy towards the
changes the government has resolved to make. EXCERPT.
Inspire of this, more is still to be done and more is still expected from the government by
disabled persons. Another disabled person adds that they will work hand in glove with the
country’s government so that the government gets to know more of their points of view, without
which, state action will be limited. EXCERPT.
To this effect, the Minister of Social Affairs, Pauline Irene NGUENE, made known that an
assessment meeting will be held on the 1rst October of every year for the implementation level
of the government’s policy.

INTERNSHIP REPORT
4) LEAD IN
Youths all around the Country have taken the initiative to compile possible tools that can help
solve the problems of unwanted pregnancies and Reproductive health among themselves.
These tools were laid down Yesterday, during the Open Door Ceremony for the 23rd edition of
the International Youth day to be commemorated today under the auspices of the Minister of
Youth Affairs and Civic Education, MONOUNA FOTSO.
REPORT
Five Youths amongst others have been selected to present their proposed solution projects to the
Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education in commemoration of the 23rd edition of the
International Youth day.
The day’s celebration which goes under the theme “ Solidarity: Creating an Equitable world for
all Ages “ has brought youths from all over the country who seek to demand financial and other
aid from the minister who has listened to Their presentations at the multi purpose sports complex
in Yaounde.
An application to help women in the calculation of their menstrual cycle is the resolution of one
of the selected five. EXCERPT.
Not forgetting that the physical impaired, deaf and dumb are also part of the youth Community
that needs sensitisation on ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies and maintain reproductive
health, one of the selected youth chose Slamming as a way of sensitisation. EXCERPT.
Story telling is another way to easily communicate and share life experiences that will impact the
life of others, especially youths in positive ways, says one of the selected five. She has chosen
novel writing as a way of sensitisation. EXCERPT.
These tools were laid down during the open door ceremony which just officially ended, and they
have been appreciated by the Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education.

INTERNSHIP REPORT
5) LEAD IN
Bear Consumers in Cameroon remain indifferent to the fact that a special day has been set aside
to commemorate beer producers as well as gather with friends and families to consume beer.
This is in relation to the International Beer day that is Celebrated on the first Friday of every
August.
REPORT
Some Cameroonian beer consumers in the Capital city Yaounde have accepted the fact that they
are ignorant about the existence of the International Beer day and say it is just a coincidence that
they were out drinking on that particular day. EXCERPT.
Given that this day is a special day that seeks to unite the world by celebrating the different types
of beer available in all countries of the world on a single day, leaves Cameroon Consumers with
different beer preferences. EXCERPT.
Despite learning that this day has been set aside to appreciate those responsible production and
serving of beer, consumers do not care about the quantity of beer taken in respect to this day, as
their income determines the quantity they consume. EXCERPT.
The world beer day was founded in California and later spread to over six continents and 80
countries throughout the world among which is Cameroon. Beer consumption in Cameroon with
or without the international beer day, is appreciated and loved by most.
SAMPLES OF FOREIGN STORIES I WROTE AND STRAIGHT STORIES I COPIED

OUT FOR NEWS.

INTERNSHIP REPORT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
When conceiving and producing the above internship report, as demanded by ASMAC after our
Internship program, we consulted the following sources;
 My Level two Internship report.
 ASHU Larissa level two Internship Report of the National Station.
 MUAM George Internship Report.
 Kelly EBEN Internship Report.
 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sample.net/
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UNIVERSITE DE YAOUNDE II

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I am grateful to all my internship supervisors, Mr TEKE Julius, MUAM George, Rita

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ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

CRTV: Cameroon Radio and Television.

CTV: Cameroon Television.

ASMAC: Advanced School of Mass Communication.

ESSTIC: École Supérieure Des Sciences et Techniques de L’information et de la

EIC: Editor In Chief.

DCR: Directeur Central du pôle Radio.

CDR: Central Director of the Radio.

WIFI: Wireless Fiber.

FM: Frequency Modulation.

MINEPAT: Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development.

MINHDU: Ministry of Housing and Urban Development.

SORAFOM: Overseas Radio Corporation.

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In the Advanced School of Mass Communication, ASMAC (ESSTIC in French), it is a

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PART ONE: PRESENTATION OF THE CRTV

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CHAPTER ONE: LOCATION, CREATION AND HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE

1. LOCATION OF THE NATIONAL STATION

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CHAPTER TWO: PRESENTATION OF THE CRTV NATIONAL STATION

1. ORGANISATION AND FUNCTIONING OF THE RADIO

 Conception, production, co-production and broadcast of information, audio-visual

I) Department of Radio Programming

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The sub-Department of Radio Programmes and Programming, the sub-Department of

The Department of Radio Newsrooms is divided into the following sub-departments:

 Daily News ( Redaction de la Journée):

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 Weekend and Public Holidays ( Redaction du weekend et des jours Fériés):

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 The Sports Desk

III) Different Desks or Services at the Radio

 Edition or Production Service:

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 The Political Desk or Service:

o The sports competition desk,

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o The world sports desk,

 The Science and Society Desk:

IV) News Preparation At The Radio

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 News Gathering (The Collect of Information)

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 News Processing and Broadcast

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CHAPTER THREE: REQUIRED SETUPS FOR NEWS PRODUCTION AT THE CRTV

1) REQUIRED SETUPS FOR NEWS PRODUCTION

 The Broadcasting Studio:

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