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02 Dec

2024 Election: Media To Have Unrestricted Access To Regional, Constituency Collation Centers – GJA

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The President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Albert Kwabena Dwumfour, has given assurance that the media will be granted unlimited access to cover the presidential and parliamentary elections on December 7, 2024. According to him, they have had recent discussions with the Electoral Commission (EC), during which the decision was made to rescind the initial restriction on media access to the regional and constituency collation centers, which was limited to 12 journalists, according to a report by citinewsroom.com. Dwumfour also disclosed that the Electoral Commission will offer 4,500 accreditations to the media for coverage of the results collation centers at the regional levels. “We…

13 Feb

US Embassy Partners GJA To Promote Peaceful Elections

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Fumesua (Ash), Jan.11, GNA – The United States Embassy is supporting the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to implement a 10-month project aimed at promoting peace before, during and after the 2024 general election. Dubbed: “Journalists for Peaceful Discourse”, the project seeks to create peaceful platforms within the media space where issues would be discussed dispationately. Selected journalists across the country are being trained to promote violence-free and credible elections under the project, which is on the theme: “Promoting Peaceful Journalistic Media Platforms Ahead of Elections 2024.” One such training has been held at Fumesua in the Ashanti Region, attended by…

21 Apr

Make GJA A Union To Negotiate Salaries For Journalists – Lecturer

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A lecturer at the University of Media, Arts, and Communications (UniMAC), Mr. Osei Kojo Addow is suggesting the transformation of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA), the umbrella body of Ghanaian journalists to a body that negotiate better remunerations for journalists in the country. He stressed the transformation of GJA into a union will position it to demand better conditions of service for journalists. According to him, this is the only way journalists in the country can get better remunerations stemming from the saturation at the media front. He said over the years, Ghanaian journalists have sold themselves cheaply to media…

13 Feb

Parliament Must Pass Broadcasting Bill Immediately – GJA

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The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has pushed for Parliament to pass the Broadcasting Bill. GJA, in a statement released on February 13 indicated that the passage of the Bill is one critical step that needs to be taken to sanitise the airwaves. “We urge the Executive and Legislature to give maximum attention to the Bill and get it passed immediately. “In fact, the Executive and Parliament cannot absolve themselves of blame as far as the current state of radio broadcasting in Ghana is concerned, and until they work in concert to pass the Broadcasting Bill immediately, they cannot raise any…

11 Oct

We’re Ready To Work Together For Common Good – GJA Assures Info. Minister

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The state of media in Ghana, the Accra International Press Centre, and the Centralization of Information Dissemination were among the issues discussed when Ghana Journalists Association ( GJA ) President Albert Dwumfour met with Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah at his office in Accra. The GJA President was accompanied by Vice President, Linda Asante-Agyei, Organising Secretary, Dominic Hlodzi, General Secretary, Kofi Yeboah and Rebecca Ekpe, Public Affairs Officer. Mr. Oppong Nkrumah was joined by his Deputy, Fatimatu Abubakar and Chief Director at the Ministry, Mrs Mamle Andrews. The meeting with Mr. Oppong Nkrumah is the second formal interaction with the…

16 Sep

ADB To Support Rebranding Of Press Centre

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The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has pledged to support the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to build the capacities of journalists in the country as well as the rebranding of the Accra International Press Center. The Bank which has been a partner of the GJA since 2018, has also reaffirmed its support for the upcoming GJA Awards which will be held on November 12, 2022, at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City. The Managing Director of the ADB, Mr. John Kofi Mensah, made the remarks when the Executives of the GJA paid a courtesy call on the Bank yesterday in Accra.…

28 Jul

Exclusion of Tema GJA: Regional Chairmen Call for National Council Meeting

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TO: National Executive Committee FROM: Regional Chairmen (Members of National Council) DATE: July 27, 2022 SUBJECT: Exclusion of Tema GJA / Call for National Council Meeting We ,the undersigned Regional Chairmen of the Ghana Journalists Association, read with utmost surprise a press release issued by the National Executive of the GJA on Tuesday July 26, 2022 and signed by its General Secretary, Mr. Kofi Yeboah, replacing three members of the Association who were properly appointed by the former GJA executives to serve on the National Media Commission and the Public Interest and Accountability Committee.Again, the unilateral decision by the…