Director of the daily newspaper Mutations and vice-president of the Union of Francophone Press, is a senior journalist
is a Sunday. May 2, 2010. It is usually a rest day. At the headquarters of the South Media Corporation, Alain Blaise Batongue, editor of the newspaper Mutations is pressed by multiple stresses. Between the phone ringing at least once every 5 minutes reporters an international television channel from obtaining its opinion on the freedom of the press in Cameroon, there are a few minutes to devote to the reporter of JDC. In his style, calm and courteous, he held more than twenty years of life as a journalist. A life that was chosen. For in reality, ABB (as termed by his friends) dreams of becoming an "ambassador".
When I kid, when I asked what I wanted to do in my life, I answered that I wanted to become an ambassador. Gradually, as I grew, I realized why it had to be a diplomat. Alain Blaise
Batongue
current after a destiny that is not his own, he enrolled after his Bachelor in Law School at the University of Yaounde. Obtained his license, it happens once the entrance to the Institute of International Relations of Cameroon (IRIC). It is reset during the oral tests. A whim of fate. Yet journalism called. At school, bilingual Yaounde, perhaps because of the quality of my essays and my dissertation, I was encouraged to join the club diary he recalls. For him, however, this is just a "hobby". He does not know when he performs there, the first steps of a trade that will follow for very long years.
doors of diplomacy it was closed, it will return to journalism. It conducts the entrance examination to the Ecole Superieure des Sciences and Techniques of Information and Communication (ESSTIC) in Yaounde in 1990. Is received. Although this is not the job I wanted exercise, I will do everything to be the best he swears. Student journalism, he officiates as a correspondent of the newspaper Dikalo in Yaounde. On leaving school, he joined the Department of Public Service. He works at the Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) as "external collaborator" and a few anime shows on FM 94, a chain of urban CRTV. It will be consulted for the establishment of a new journal: "Generations" which according to him the view of some observers of the press "is one of the best newspapers that Cameroon has ever had." In July 1996, accompanied by "two friends", Haman Mana and Alphonse Soh, he participated in the creation of the daily "Mutations". 14 years later, he did not leave the ship. It has even become the captain. Managing Editor. A vertical progress based on a triptych on which he leans his entire career: talent, work and patience. "Today, one can see me riding in a big car and think it's easy. It is 17 years, in fact 20 years of work "he said. Alain Blaise Batongue not ultimately became a diplomat, but it's almost the same.
Through journalism, I am enriched with many contacts and I made many trips. I'm not an ambassador in the sense that I heard but I can say I am an ambassador of journalism. Alain Blaise
Batongue
In fact, Alain Blaise Batongue can congratulate themselves for having achieved the dream of an international city. It is today president of the Cameroon Union of Francophone Press (UPF), and international vice president of that organization. It was in France in 1998 during the World Cup he decided to join the UPF. In 2003, the president of the Cameroonian is pointed in a case of illicit trafficking and visa. Fallen into "disuse", it is sanctioned by the organization. In August of that year, the secretary general of the organization decides to appoint a president of the Cameroon section of the organization to "restore credibility and visibility to the Union." ABB is appointed. He decides to take Cameroon to this position. It organizes training seminars for journalists in Cameroon. In addition, notably, through the interpersonal "diplomat", Cameroon had the distinct honor of hosting the 41th sitting of the UPF. In fact
international ambition, Alain Blaise Batongue hopes to continue his career in corporate communications. In an international organization. After more than 20 years, I can claim an experience that allows me to make consultations with international organizations think he said. But in the meantime, he remains very close to the circles of the press.
There's good and bad in the Cameroonian press. I am pleased to note that sometimes the press is able to move the lines. Maybe not yet at the Presidency of the Republic is considered an impregnable fortress, but there are investigations at the press can make things happen (...) There are still colleagues who write anything.
Alain Blaise Batongue
To young fellow who watch in awe, he reiterated the triptych "talent, work and patience." While I was at school, I worked for people who promised to pay me and did not pay me. I supported it because I considered it as a learning experience, "he advises. Now head of the newspaper he helped to create 16 years ago, ABB, is a hard worker who wants to know everything about what is in each issue. This even led to criticism from some of its employees. He is involved in everything. He checks the items, monitors topics short, it behaves like a super editor. This is not what is expected of an editor, squeaky one of its employees that it recognizes, however, the quality manager in a context where there is a lot of pressure to manage. For a successful career, that ABB is one. He has already had almost everything a journalist could dream of. Financial resources, many trips abroad, an established reputation, a solid address book. Maybe he misses he just created his own newspaper admires a young colleague. Would it have been filled as if it had become a diplomat? Mystery of fate.
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