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Students and tutors of Sacred Heart SHS after their tour on UCC campus.
Students of Sacred Heart Senior High School (SHS) in Accra have visited the Department of Communication Studies Experience Lab to acquaint themselves with production procedures.
The tour by members of the writers and readers club of the school was part of the school’s extra curricula activities.
The tour aimed at acquainting them with undergraduate students' news gathering, packaging and distribution processes of the Department's newsletter, among others.
The students were taken round the various segments of the Experience Lab (which gives undergraduate students practical experience in their area of study) and had the opportunity to pose questions in the areas of television, radio and newspaper production.
Mr. Enoch Acheampong, a professional-in-residence at the Department, briefed the high school students on the various processes news go through ahead of reaching campus readers as packaged products.
Mr. Enoch Acheampong explaining a point to the students ahead of their tour of the Experience Lab
With a good number of the students opting to be journalists in the near future, he advised the students to inculcate the habit of reading wide in order to become successful in their career.
“It is important to read, read, read, read everything. Everything is important in journalism and in life. Just be inquisitive so as to learn and know a bit of everything,” he said.
He also educated the students about the sources of news, story writing, newspaper design, proofreading and common terminologies in the newspaper industry, videography and photography basics.
He also entreated students to listen to good radio stations to improve both the acceptable use of the English Language and news reporting
A Communication Studies student interviewing the Member of Parliament for Cape Coast North Constituency, Dr. Kwamena Minta Nyarku, who is also a Senior Lecturer at the Unversity of Cape Coast
He urged the students to always seek the thoughts of others and to accept criticisms when they are made regarding their reports as journalists.
Mr. Acheampong shared his experiences with the students and urged them to follow their interests for the purpose of specialization.
“Inasmuch as you want to do or know a bit of everything, you should have some kind of specialization in a topic when it comes to journalism,” he added.
Mr. Simon Owusu, a teacher who accompanied the students in an interview with University Press, said the school looks forward to bringing out the best in the students and with many of them desiring to be journalists, there was the need to take the students out to have practical experience of what journalists do.
He said some of the students truly aspire to be journalists in the future, the reason why they have joined the writer’s and reader’s club of the school so the school deemed it necessary to take them on the tour.
The students were excited at the opportunity and expressed the hope that they would one day live their dreams as renowned journalists by pursuing further studies at the University of Cape Coast (UCC).
Mrs. Lydia Ansah, a teacher, also accompanied the students.
Some photos at the Experience Lab of the Campus Broadcasting Services
Louis Bekoe - Student Journalist
Some students at the studio for practical session
Source: Directorate of Public Affairs