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COCOBOD Strengthen Ties With Media
Posted on: Wed 28 Dec, 2011.
As part of efforts to get the public to fully appreciate the immense
contribution of the cocoa sector to the country's economic growth, Ghana
Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has organized a two-day training for journalists
to enable them to report appropriately on the sector. Read more...
Media Fund is not to buy journalists- Ablakwah
Posted on: Fri 18 Nov, 2011.
Government has dismissed suspicions that it is attempting to manipulate journalists by the creation of a media fund. Read more...
Africa Investigates on Al Jazeera: What Price the Story?
Posted on: Wed 09 Nov, 2011.
Africa Investigates is a groundbreaking new
series that puts flesh on Al Jazeera's ambition to give voice to the
voiceless. In a world first, this hard-hitting project gives some of
Africa's best journalists the opportunity to pursue high-level
investigative targets across the continent - using their unique
perspective and local knowledge to put corruption, exploitation and
abuse under the spotlight. Read more...
South African journalists fight 'repressive media laws'
Posted on: Wed 11 Aug, 2010.
South African journalists have launched a campaign against proposed legislation which they say would curtail press freedom and threaten democracy. Read more...
Media watchdog group names freedom "predators"
Posted on: Tue 04 May, 2010.
Media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders has named the leaders of China, Russia and Rwanda as some of the world's worst "predators of freedom" Read more...
Government dispels earthquake scare
Posted on: Mon 18 Jan, 2010.
Government has dispelled rumour making the rounds in Ghana that there
is an impending earthquake expected to hit parts of the country. Read more...
Ninth journalist arrested in Gambia crackdown
Posted on: Mon 22 Jun, 2009.
BANJUL (AFP) - Gambian opposition leader and journalist Halifa Sallah has been arrested, making him the ninth journalist taken into custody in a crackdown on Gambia's media, sources said Friday. Read more...
Gambian journalists charged with seditious publication
Posted on: Fri 19 Jun, 2009.
BANJUL (AFP) - Seven Gambian journalists were charged with seditious publication Thursday for reprinting a press union statement criticising President Yahya Jammeh, an AFP journalist reported. Read more...
Zimbabwe journalists freed on bail over 'falsehoods'
Posted on: Wed 13 May, 2009.
HARARE (AFP) - Two senior journalists were freed on bail Tuesday, one day after they were arrested on charges of publishing falsehoods about the detention of 18 activists, their lawyer said. Read more...
Japan launches English NHK World TV
Posted on: Mon 02 Feb, 2009.
TOKYO (AFP) - NHK World TV went on air Monday as the latest English-language international news network as Japan joined the race to boost clout overseas by reaching out to viewers. Read more...
Chinese sites cut communism, dissent from Obama speech
Posted on: Wed 21 Jan, 2009.
SHANGHAI (AFP) - US President Barack Obama's inauguration speech left China's state-run media scrambling on Wednesday, with many attempting to censor his references to communism and dissent. Read more...
Kenyan president opens path to amending media law
Posted on: Thu 08 Jan, 2009.
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has hinted he may be prepared to amend a controversial media law by asking two senior government figures to mull possible amendments to it, his office said Wednesday. Read more...
Abuse Of Radio Phone-In Programmes - Police, GAF Worried
Posted on: Thu 11 Sep, 2008.
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and the Ghana Police Service have expressed worry about phone-in programmes on radio stations during which hosts fail to control contribution from callers.
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President Commends African Media
Posted on: Mon 21 Jul, 2008.
 President J. A. Kufuor, has commended African media practitioners for their hard work and asked them to play a more crucial role in the continent's quest to achieve good governance. Read more...
Senior leader: China to ensure media freedom during Olympics
Posted on: Fri 11 Jul, 2008.
 BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Foreign journalists should complain formally if they have any problems in doing their jobs during the Beijing Olympic Games, senior Chinese leader Li Changchun said here on Thursday. While visiting the Beijing International Media Center (BIMC), which opened on Tuesday to serve more than 5,000 non-accredited reporters during the Games, he said officials would effectively implement regulations that ensured foreign journalists would be allowed the freedom to report. Read more...
Kumasi High court restrains Chronicle
Posted on: Mon 12 May, 2008.
Kumasi, Oct. 29, GNA - A Kumasi High court has granted an interim injunction restraining General Portfolio Limited, publishers of the Chronicle and its agents, from publishing in their newspaper any matter concerning Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, Kwabre West constituency chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Read more...
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