By: Issac Asare
All is set for the 26th Ghana Journalists Association, GJA Awards scheduled for Saturday, November 12, 2022, at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City in Accra.
The theme for this year’s Awards is: “Walking the Path Towards Ghana’s Economic Recovery: The Role of The Media”.
According to the President of the GJA, Albert Kwabena Dwumfour, this year’s event which will be held under the distinguished patronage of President Akufo-Addo, will go down in history as one of the best.
At a news conference ahead of the Awards, Mr. Dwumfour said he has confidence in the Awards Committee over their work done in selecting the awardees.
The Awards Review Committee was chaired by Dr. Sarah Akrofi Quarcoo and together with her team, reviewed the nature of the Awards, slashing the Awards categories from over 50 to 37.
This, according to the Review Committee was to reduce the long hours spent during the Awards Night which sometimes creates boredom on the night. He was hopeful that with the reduction of the categories, the event will be smooth and orderly.
Mr. Dwumfour commended the Awards Committee, headed by Mrs. Yaa Oforiwaa Asare-Peasah.
Mrs. Asare-Peasah last Tuesday, November 8, 2022 released names of individuals and media houses that have been nominated to win awards at the event.
She said some of the entries had issues such as incorrect categorization, poor content organization, and poor presentation quality such as scanning of photocopied materials, making reading impossible, and were thus not considered at all.
Other challenges, she mentioned were running videos without audio, disjointed sentences, and incoherent flow of ideas among other application lapses.
Despite the hiccups, Mrs. Asare-Peasah said the Committee Members were equal to the task and delivered on schedule.
GBC’s Beatrice Senadju, Peggy Ama Donkor and Mavis Offei are among the nominees for the awards.
