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“Too many celebrity reportage in the media as against developmental journalism.” – Communication and Culture Consultant

A Consultant in Communication, Media and Culture, Nana Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng, says there are too many celebrity reportage in the media as against developmental journalism.

He, therefore, charged media practitioners to focus on education, sanitation and health among other developmental issues.

Nana Gyan-Apenteng, former Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), took his turn at the “MTN Bright Conversations with Nana Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng @70; Reflections on the Media as a Lived Experience” held virtually in Accra.

The event was to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Veteran Journalist, who was once an Editor of the Daily Graphic and the Mirror.

It was also for him to share his rich journalism experience with the current crop of journalists as well as up and coming practitioners.

Nana Gyan-Apenteng said journalists must be more adventurous, curious, creative and innovative in their story telling.

Nana Gyan-Apenteng paid tribute to the late Edward Ameyibor, a former Editor of the Ghana News Agency, who he encountered in the northern part of the country, for giving him the opportunity to commence a serious journalism practice as a vacation job.

He told the audience that his first assignment for the Agency was to cover the opening of the Office of the Northern Regional House of Chiefs, which he did but was told the next morning that what he wrote was not a news story.

He said the late Ameyibor taught him vividly the basics of news writing and one lesson he had gotten from him, which was vital in journalism, was note taking.

The former Chairman of the NMC called on young and upcoming journalists to cultivate the spirit of volunteerism and endeavour to take notes when they went on assignment, because it vindicated the reporter when issues came up with stories.

“These days l see many journalists drop their mobile phones to record without taking notes. It is a bad habit,” he added.

He commended journalists and media houses, who were doing their best, to continue to uphold the ethics of the profession and urged others to fall in line with good practices of the craft.

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