Huge step into the future for Standard graduate trainees

Journalists who graduated from the Standard Group Academy yesterday.

Twelve journalists yesterday graduated from the Standard Group Academy, a prestigious training programme that takes young and budding journalists through several months of intense multimedia training at the Aga Khan University, Graduate School of Media and Communications.

The graduates were selected from 220 shortlisted candidates last year, after which they embarked on a six months rigorous multimedia training at the university. The multimedia training, sponsored by Standard Group, was combined with a concurrent mentorship programme, under which the trainee journalists were paired with mentors, including senior editors and experienced journalists at the Standard Group, to guide and advise them.