More than 100 working journalists, as well as 20 aspiring journalists, will benefit from a new partnership between MTN and Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies over the next five years.
Yesterday, MTN announced it had formed an alliance with the tertiary education institution, based in Grahamstown, in the Eastern Cape, to sponsor full- and part-time studies at the university.
"As social commentators and important opinion-makers, it is in our interest to support the South African media in their quest for responsible and accountable journalism," says Tim Lowry, MTN SA MD. "With mobile technology making the strides that it has, it is imperative that mobile communications play an integral part in the development of media."
Under the partnership, 100 working journalists will be sponsored to study short courses at the journalism department's Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership. In addition, 100 aspiring journalists will be sponsored for a year's worth of full-time media studies at the university.
Lowry says the sponsorship is being done as "MTN shares the interest and concern of other organisations and media owners, not just about the content of reportage, but also quality and media viability".
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