Mediatude Media Awards: SOPECAM Showcases Its Digital Strides

The Cameroon News and Publishing Corporation, SOPECAM today boasts a number of products in its stable. The most popular being its flagship publication, Cameroon Tribune bilingual daily. Founded in 1974, the paper was amongst the first in the country to go digital about 14 years ago. Ever since, Cameroon Tribune has rebranded its website several times, the latest being in 2019. All in a bid to keep abreast with latest trends in online journalism. It is these experiences that SOPECAM staff shared with the audience on February 1, 2020 in the French Institute, Douala at the 2019 Mediatude Media Awards during the second panel discussion. Entitled “Traditional Media: Adapt to the internet or perish? The case of the print media,” the panelists were Beatrice Clarisse Beyala, Head of Infrastructure Systems and Network, SOPECAM, Kimeng Hilton Ndukong, Coordinator, Cameroon Tribune Online, Haman Mana, publisher of Le Jour newspaper, and Fidele Mole, General Manager of eKiosque, an online media sales outfit.

The SOPECAM representatives shared with other panel members and the huge audience how management has over the years trained and retrained reporters in web journalism and how online sales of SOPECAM products have been rising. Similarly, security has been tightened around Cameroon Tribune’s website to prevent hacking and the illegal copying of its articles and pictures.

Moreover, Cameroon Tribune Online aims to become an autonomous newsroom, able to generate all of its own content. Instead of using mostly the articles of the print version as it ...