PROOF: Print media is not dead, all we need are better journalists

• Michael Meyer has been at the Aga Khan Graduate School of Media and Communications as the school’s founding dean for four years, after a five-year stint at the United Nations as the communications director and speech writer for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
• An award-winning correspondent for Newsweek magazine where he spent most of his professional life as an editor, Meyer holds an MA in Journalism from Columbia University.

What should people know about Aga Khan Graduate School of Media and Communications?

The Aga Khan University has in the past chiefly been a medical school training medical practitioners, including nurses and midwives. The Aga Khan established the Aga Khan Graduate School of Media and Communications ahead of other graduate schools, to change the media landscape in East Africa. What is missing is the kind of graduate professional education seen in the United States and Europe in business, law and above all in media. The Aga Khan is therefore establishing a series of graduate professional schools across the region beginning with this media school. It is a huge investment amounting to $500 million (Sh50 billion) over the next 15 years.