A Court of Appeal Judge, His Lordship Justice Noble Jerome Nkrumah, sworn-in new members of the National Media Commission (NMC) at the Supreme Court in Accra Wednesday.
The newly sworn-in members later elected Prof. Akua Biritwum as the Chairman of the 18-member Commission who will serve for a three-year term.
She makes history by becoming the first ever female chairperson of NMC since it was established in 1993. Prof. Biritwum is one of two representatives of the Office of the President on the NMC. The other representative is Richard Mawuli Quashigah.
The other members of the NMC and the institutions they represent are: Cecil Sunkwa-Mills –Association of Private Broadcasters, Hajj Muhammad Amir Kpakpo Addo – Federation of Muslim Councils and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission; Anthony Obeng Afrane – Ghana Association of Writers and the Ghana Library Association; Ernest Owusu Addo – Publishers and Owners of the Private Press; Prof Isaac Abeku Blankson – Training Institutions of Journalists and Communicators; Esther Numaba Cobbah – Ghana Advertisers Association and the Institute of Public Relations of Ghana, and Eva Okyere – Ghana Bar Association.
The rest are: Joseph Yao Hotor – Trades Union Congress; Abena Annobea Asare – National Council on Women and Development; Rev Isaac Owusu – Ghana National Association of Teachers; Rev Ruby Amable – Christian Groups (National Catholic Secretariat, Christian Council of Ghana, Ghana Pentecostal Council); Mahama Shaibu – Parliament of Ghana (Majority); Philip Fiifi Buckman – Parliament of Ghana (Majority), and Korkor Laurette Asante – Parliament of Ghana (Minority).
Per Article 166 of the 1992 Constitution, the NMC is constituted by identified institutions, including the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA).
Vincent Kobby Asmah, the immediate-past Editor of Graphic of the Graphic Communications Group Limited, is one of two GJA representatives on the current Commission.
In that capacity, his mandate involved supervising all the flagship brands of the GCGL (Daily Graphic, The Mirror, Graphic Business, Graphic Sports, Graphic Showbiz, Junior Graphic, Graphic Online and Graphic Apps) which are all market leaders in Ghana’s media industry.
With three decades of experience in journalism, two decades of which were spent at the newsroom senior management level, Kobby Asmah’s areas of interest are international and local politics; development journalism; media and conflict resolution, and international relations.
As an objective, fair-minded, and analytical writer, Kobby Asmah is in key position to influence editorial decisions and publish insightful articles on local and international relations.
His write ups have also received commendation from local and international groupings and he was adjudged the GCGL Managing Director’s Best Worker in 2008.
He also won the GJA 2008 Best Journalist in Political and Parliamentary Reporting Award, and the GJA Outstanding Editor of the Year.
The prestigious Chevening Scholarship by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK through the British Council to pursue a Masters programme.
Kobby Ashmah also won Indian Scholarship to pursue an Advance Diploma Course at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.
The second GJA representative on the NMC is Kofi Yeboah, the General Secretary of the Association and Media Law lecturer at Wisconsin International University College, Ghana.
He has practiced journalism for 30 years, having worked in all the four state-owned media – Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Graphic Communications Group Limited, New Times Corporation and Ghana News Agency.
He has also worked extensively in the private-owned media and across all the various media platforms (print, electronic, news agency and online).
Kofi Yeboah, a multiple award-winning journalist, is the author of the book: ‘Perils & Pearls… Scribbles of a stammering scribe’, which is an autobiography of his professional career.
His academic and professional interests include media freedom, media rights and ethics, media responsibility, development communication, democratic development and human rights.
Kofi Yeboah holds a Master of Arts in Democracy, Governance, Law and Development, from the University of Cape Coast; Master of Laws (LLM) in Human Rights Law and Practice, from the University of Ghana; Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies, also from the University of Ghana; Bachelor of Laws (LLB), from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and Diploma in Journalism, from the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
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