Feza Secondary school yesterday visited the Tanzania Standard Newspaper (TSN) offices, the publishers of Daily News, Sunday News, Habari Leo and Habari Leo Jumapili for a Form Four study tour.
The tour was organized by TSN as a program for the top ten schools in Dar es Salaam, a vision aimed at encouraging students to look at Journalism as a field to pursue and English as the medium of communication. Feza High School is ranked first in this year’s top ten schools in Dar es Salaam followed by Barbro Johansson High School, Shabaan Robert, Kunduchi girls, Almuntazir Islamic School, Saint Anthony, Airwing High, Mbezi beach, Ubungo Islamic and Loyola High School than came in last.
The students got the opportunity to see how planning of a publication is done, designing the layout of the publication, formatting of texts and graphics, to mention a few.
Speaking to the teacher who accompanied the students, Mr Bonnie Agea said that the students learned a lot from such tours as they get to see what they learn in class assomething that can be done, in the real world.
“Daily News is a well established newspaper, this is why this opportunity is a great honour for us and I am sure my students have got a glimpse on how this industry works,” he added.
Dennis Msemwa, one of the students present said that the tour was interesting and that other media houses should follow what TSN is doing in encouraging the youth to gain interest in this field. “Although I do not want to pursue journalism, I do think it is an important instrument for the public. I want to become a Graphic Designer because one gets to be creative at all times, its exciting!” he exclaime
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