Death of Jocelyne Randrianary form the Gazetiko daily newspaper30/11/2009 | 14:06:13
The Midi group has just lost one of its journalists. Jocelyne Randrianary has passed away. She died after months of struggle with cancer.
All of her friends used to call her Joce. She has been journalist in charge of the Gazetiko daily newspaper's Malagasy written social page for the Midi group during more than ten years. She recently became Editor-in-chief of the Midi Flash and Midi Mailaka weekly magazines. Joce's professional life has been unfolding within the Midi press group since she graduated as journalist from the University of Antananarivo.
She just turned 40 years old. Basically trained as an attorney, Jocelyne Randrianary preferred to dedicate herself to the world of press.
Her death stunned her university classmates and her colleagues. The Midi and Gazetiko newspapers decided to pay her a special tribute. Stéphane Jacob, Midi Madagascar's editor in chief and also her teacher in the university, described Joce as "a passionate professional journalist, and a warm welcoming figure".
Jocelyne Randrianary has been crazy about sport for quite a long time. She has been practicing karate since nearly twenty years. She was also captain of Antananarivo city's female journalists’ soccer team.
Following some months spent at the hospital in the Malagasy capital city, Joce carried her treatment on in the Parisian region, in France. There she passed away in the night of Friday November 27th. The whole guild of journalists was struck by a wave of emotion, since she happened to be far too young to go away.
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