By James Chege

members of the Kenyatta University
Students Journalism Club (KUSJC)
visited a leading media house in the
region where they got valuable lessons on
communication.
The visit to the Standard Group Centre,
the home of the Standard Group was an
eye opener to the 20 KUSJC members. The
Centre, on Mombasa Road, comprises various
sections, including the studios of the Kenya
Television Network (KTN), Radio Maisha, the
Publishers Distribution Service (PDS), Standard
newspapers, and the printing press.
The students were taken around the
premises by Mr. Michael Kivindyo a senior
Corporate Affairs official with the Group. The
five-hour tour on November 4, 2010, saw the
KU team tour key areas including the creative
section (where the KTN graphic designers and
animators were busy developing new ideas);
the security section; the editorial library; and,
the newsroom ,where they interacted with
experienced journalists at work. In fact, Lenny,
the Group’s cartoonist, was at had to draw and
autograph caricatures for the students.
Perhaps the most memorable part of the visit
was the printing section where the budding
journalists were taken through the automated
press process of printing, packaging and
loading newspapers into vans ready for
delivery.
Mr. Kivindyo encouraged the potential
journalists to strive to become great scribes.
“Good is the enemy of great,” he said.