The Media Platform on Environment and Climate Change (MPEC) and the Minority Rights Group Africa (MRGA) have the pleasure to announce that six Ghanaian journalists representing four media organisations
have emerged as finalists in the second edition of the Inclusive & Anti-Conflict Journalism Awards in
Ghana.
The Daily Graphic and Joy News (a member of the Multimedia Group Limited) have two finalists each
while the other two finalists represent the Ghana News Agency and ApexNewsGh.
The finalists are:
Print/Newspaper Category
• Mohammed Fugu, Daily Graphic, Tamale
• Timothy Ngnenbe, Daily Graphic, Accra
Online/Wire Service
• Anthony Adongo Apubeo, Ghana News Agency, Bolgatanga
• Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen, ApexNewsGh, Bolgatanga
TV Category
• Emmanuel Bright Quaicoe, Joy News, Kumasi
• Mona Lisa Frimpong, Joy News, Kumasi
There are no finalists selected for Radio Category because entries did not satisfy the criteria and standards of the awards.
The finalists will be recognized at an awards ceremony scheduled for Tuesday, 28th May 2024 in Accra.
A prize would also be given to the journalist who emerges as “Overall Best Inclusion and Conflict Prevention Reporters”
The theme for this year’s awards ceremony is “Deepening quality and ethical journalism to address conflict
and minority exclusion.”
The Inclusive & Anti-conflict Journalism Awards is being organized under the “Engaging Media and
Minorities to Act for Peacebuilding (EMMAP),” a multi-country project being undertaken in Ghana,
Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It is funded by the European Union (EU) through the Minority Rights Group
(MRG).
The EMMAP partners recognise the imperative to incentivise journalists and media organisations to produce better quality reporting in a manner that takes cognisance of minority issues and the inter-connections with
conflicts and migration so as to eliminate, or at least reduce, the impact of conflicts and incidences of discrimination against minority and indigenous communities. We also recognise that climate related events
impact people’s decisions to migrate largely through economic, political, technological, demographic, and
socio-cultural factors.
Journalists telling stories about such phenomena ought to be supported to tackle the dynamic interlinkages.
The Inclusive & Anti-conflict Journalism Awards accepted entries from journalists whose work addressed
these interlinkages through reports produced on themes such as migration, conflict, climate change,
environment, and socio-economic development.
Should you need further information or clarification, you may contact MPEC via mpec.ghana@gmail.com
or call Salomey on 0242405629.
Mary Ama Kudom-Agyemang (Mrs)
Executive Director.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com
