Cameroon Parliament or the visit of an IMF/World Bank delegation are simply covered. There is hardly any analysis. For a country which has been in crisis for long, everyone’s concern should be how to survive, but nobody writes on agriculture or industrialisation. A journalist who follows a Minister to a rural area considers that she/he is doing a farmer a favour by reporting on his activities. Some would even expect the farmer to pay them. Journalists in Cameroon have influenced the public to believe that a newspaper that carries no political or embezzlement stories is not worth reading. For example,: “What is not negative in Cameroon is not considered to be news”. In the Universities of Buea, Yaounde II and Institutes like Ndi Samba Supérieure and Siantu University Complexes where journalists are trained, much of what it takes to cover economic stories is dished out to the student journalists. But after training, those who make the choices in the newsrooms simply ignore such training. Journalists who graduated from the Advanced School of Mass Communication with a Post-graduate Diploma in economic reporting were assigned elsewhere in CRTV. There are no specialised newspapers and magazines in Cameroon. A small magazine “Business World”, which focused on the successes and failures of some prominent people, was created in 1997, but it has since disappeared. Investigative reporting is a no-go area for journalists in Cameroon because of what it takes in terms of finances and for fear of victimization. SCORES: Individual scores: 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1 Average Score: 2.2 34 African Media Barometer - Cameroon 2008