Media: CPA/Kwango journalists urged to adapt to digital technology

Kenge, May 3^rd, 2025 (CPA) – Adapting to the new digital system was at the heart of a message from the CEO of the Congolese Press Agency (CPA) to journalists during a stopover in Kenge, the capital of Kwango, in the south-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after Tshikapa (Kasai) and Kikwit (Kwilu). ‘I’ve come to encourage you. We have to adapt to the new digital system. We have to work in real time, and each journalist has to produce at least two dispatches a day,’ said Bienvenu-Marie Bakumanya, CEO of the CPA. ‘We want to improve production and ensure the transition to digital. Real time is a challenge we have to meet,’ he added. While in Kenge, the CEO visited the CPA/Kwango site. He expressed his satisfaction with the location of the site, which is part of the company’s heritage, and with the construction of the three-room office that has already begun. To this end, Bienvenu-Marie Bakumanya promised to lend his support so that by the end of the year, this building will be up and running and will enable the staff and executives of this public media to work in good conditions.  For his part, Alex Kathy Katay, head of the CPA’s image department, reminded journalists of the use of the telephone as a working tool par excellence in the digital age.  He also urged them to help promote the CPA’s digital platforms. ‘We are a news agency, and the CPA is a supplier of information to other news organizations,’ stressed Kathy Katay, before calling on these media professionals to be more professional and to extend their media coverage.