Stephane Jacob was equally a great trainer for setting great store on the profession´s next generation. Scores of young reporters benefitted from his teaching. This major press figure was carefull towards his disciples. As a proof, he used to congratulated his graduates this way: “Do call me Stephane, we are now brothers-in-arms, aren´t we?”
Stephane Jacob has been serving for twenty years as MIDI MADAGASIKARA´s edition´s guru. His spent fourty years of his life as reporter, and had done a dozen more jobs before, as he declared to his colleagues. A latest tribute was paid to him on August 31st. His relatives and his colleagues massively joined the catholic church of Ankadivato to wave a final goodbye to him.