PanoGra­ma En­ter­tain­ment, an or­gan­i­sa­tion ded­i­cat­ed to the ad­vance­ment of young peo­ple, has es­tab­lished a pro­fes­sion­al re­la­tion­ship with the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Mona cam­pus to pro­vide a train­ing ex­pe­ri­ence for in­terns study­ing Jour­nal­ism at the Caribbean School of Me­dia and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (Cari­mac).

While com­plet­ing their in­tern­ship, stu­dents will gain work ex­pe­ri­ence in jour­nal­ism and are ex­pect­ed to demon­strate the knowl­edge and skills ob­tained at Cari­mac.

They will al­so learn time man­age­ment, ef­fec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion and be as­sist­ed in the de­vel­op­ment of prop­er work ethics and in­ter­per­son­al skills.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, they will be able to build their port­fo­lios and in some cas­es, have their work pub­lished by no­table me­dia hous­es on var­i­ous plat­forms.

Tamoy Ashman

Since the start of the pro­gramme in April, PanoGra­ma En­ter­tain­ment has worked with three young women—Dana Mal­colm, Ta­moy Ash­man and Kalle­jhay Ter­re­longe—who have each made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to PanoGra­ma En­ter­tain­ment. They have giv­en their tes­ti­mo­ny about the ex­cel­lence of the pro­gramme, and its im­pact on their de­vel­op­ment, not on­ly as fu­ture jour­nal­ists but as young peo­ple hop­ing to make a dif­fer­ence in so­ci­ety.

Ter­re­longe said: “It has been an ex­tra­or­di­nary ex­pe­ri­ence. I have learned a lot and gained knowl­edge that I know will help me in my field of study.”

Mal­colm said: “It has been a very ful­fill­ing and learn­ing ex­pe­ri­ence. The re­cep­tion was warm and pro­fes­sion­al, and I felt like part of a team where my ideas were val­ued.”

Kallejhay Terrelonge

Ash­man said the guid­ance she re­ceived from PanoGra­ma En­ter­tain­ment’s CEO Nevin Roach made an im­pact. “Mr Roach was al­ways there to give ad­vice or an­swer any ques­tions that I had. I re­ceived feed­back on my writ­ing mul­ti­ple times. The ex­pe­ri­ence was an en­joy­able one that al­lowed me to grow both as a fu­ture jour­nal­ist and a per­son,” she said.

Cari­mac of­fi­cials said they are pleased with the lev­el of pro­fes­sion­al­ism, pro­vi­sion of ex­pe­ri­ences and ex­po­sure grant­ed to the stu­dents who have com­plet­ed their in­tern­ships with the PanoGra­ma En­ter­tain­ment:

“The op­por­tu­ni­ties have al­lowed our stu­dents to ad­just to the de­mands of the world of work while putting in­to prac­tice the rel­e­vant Jour­nal­ism and me­dia & com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills that they have ac­quired over the last two years. We look for­ward to a fruit­ful and mu­tu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial part­ner­ship through the in­tern­ship pro­gramme.”