CENPA Sharpens English Language Publishers Skills ✓Call on government to Create Special Funds for Publishers or a Common Relief Fund for the Media

✓Boost Morals of English Language Newspaper Publishers in the Phase of Social Media threats

This was in a two days serious brainstorming workshop organized in Ebolowa on the 3^rd and 4^th of August 2020 at Bengo Hotel by Cameroon English Language Newspaper Publishers Association (CENPA) which gathered Publishers of the said Association nation wide to check ways and map out new footpaths in the media landscape in the phase of increasing social media threats and clandestine Journalism.

Operating from and in a crisis deepening war situations or zone has been so challenging to Cameroon English Language Newspaper Publishers amidst cross fire, unstable market situation and social media threats plus clandestine Journalism practices.

Which is what motivated the President General of the said Association who doubles as the Executive Director of the Guardians Post daily Newspaper Ngah Christian to Assemble fellow colleagues all over the nation to strategize, map out new foot path as they sharpen skills to face challenging days ahead.

In the working session Newspaper Publishers chart ways out of the mix up social media infiltrators  have so far orchestrated to destabilize  print media market.

Placed under the theme, “rescuing the dying Anglophone print Media”, the two days power point workshop centered on media deontology, media rights, ethic and security facilitated by Peter Ngu Taryong, Amindeh Blaise, Giyo Ndzi and Ngah Christian with special focus on Leadership in Newsroom, Digital and Physical security for Newspaper Publishers, Adaptation to digital transformation by Newspaper Publishers, Best Practices in Newspaper management and sustainability presided over by the representative of the Minister of communication, Mrs Margarite Solange Beko’o Regional Delegate of communication for the South.

Speaking at, while opening the skills building workshop with over 40 English Language Newspaper Publishers answering present, Mrs Margerite thanked the President General of CENPA for such an initiative that it is a stitch in time which will go a long way to enhance and sustain print media journalism in Cameroon.

CENPA President General Ngah Christian on his part, delivery his opening notes welcomed the representative of the Minister of communication Rene Emmanuel Said, thanked colleagues for massive attendance and the resilience they have since put up in the phase of the Anglophone crisis that has since affected activities. He used the forum to encourage colleagues while calling on the Minister to create a special fund or better still a common relief funds for Cameroon English Language Newspaper Publishers to mediate working situations, challenging market times and social media threats in order to protect print media heritage and enable publishers work at ease.

CENPA, Cameroon English Language Newspaper Publishers Association, dates almost eight years and has done a lot in the direction of media right protection, social Humanitarian services and contributed a lot in enhancing good governance in Cameroon.