Freedom of the press

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Critical Media Minds For Critical Times

The Freedom of Information Bill has waited for nine years, and, still counting.  The Broadcasting Bill has not spent...

News

Must We Tolerate Irresponsible Journalists To Safeguard Freedom Expression In Ghana?

Must we tolerate irresponsible journalists to safeguard freedom expression in Ghana? Yesterday was International Press...

News

GJA Marks World Press Freedom Day

As the world marks World Press Freedom Day, the Ghana Journalist Association is holding a public lecture as part of...

International

Media Freedom In Africa ‘not Great’

Media watchdogs are voicing concern about curbs on press freedom. DW looks at the media in Africa where restrictions...

Headlines

Global Press Freedom At 13-Year Low

Global press freedom has hit a 13-year low, threatened by US President Donald Trump's media bashing and restrictions...

Headlines

Media ‘never Under So Much Threat’, Says Watchdog

Press freedom has never been as threatened as it is now, in the "new post-truth era of fake news" after the election of...

Headlines

Tanzania Civil Society Urges Govt To Respect Basic Freedoms

Tanzanian civil society organisations have launched a year-long campaign calling on the government to respect freedom...

Top Stories

Ghana Leads Africa In Violation of Press Freedom

A research by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has shown that Ghana is the leading violator of press freedom...

Top Stories

Journalists Urged To Work Together On Election Day For Safety

Journalists billed to cover this year's elections for various media house are being advised to work as a team for their...

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Irresponsible Media Threatens Judicial Independence – NMC

Nana Kwesi Gyan-Appenteng, the Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), says press freedom without...

Top Stories

The Independence of the Judiciary Must Be Safeguarded At All Costs

The independence of the Judiciary must be safeguarded at all costs The most important criteria of a true democratic...

Opinion

Fadi Dabbousis Journalistic Terrorism Mirrors Akufo-Addos All-Die-Be-Die 3

“I have often spoken of rumors as ‘terrorism,’ of how you can kill a person with the tongue…If this is valid...

Opinion

A Key To Peaceful Election

The Mass Media is consider as the forth Arm of Government in a democratic State. The role the media plays toward the...

Opinion

Our Media Landscape

The Ghana Journalists Association just completed a glittering celebration of our best journalists. Amongst the awardees...

Top Stories

Your Words Can Bite You Badly – Ace Ankomah Warns

Private legal practitioner, Ace Anan Ankomah has warned that a number of prohibitive laws in the country’s statute...

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Ghana’s Press Freedom Index Takes a Nosedive under Mahama

Ghana's Press Freedom Index has taken a nosedive under Mahama and his administration according to latest global world...