Cadet school delivers more community journalists

Thirteen cadets recently graduated from Caxton's Cadet School, reportedly the first educational institution specialising in community journalism in South Africa. Caxton Community Newspapers has been training journalists for the past five years, and launched the initiative when it saw the need to make its newsrooms more representative of the new SA. "Caxton saw this as an opportunity to train people with a passion for journalism, but who didn't have the means to pay for their own training through other tertiary institutions," explains Bruce Sturgeon, CEO of Caxton Community Newspapers. This year's top student was awarded a three-year scholarship to Rhodes University to study journalism, sponsored by Caxton Community Newspapers.