Portia Gabor of TV3 on Saturday (12 November) emerged as the Journalist of the Year 2021 at the Ghana Journalists Association’s (GJA) 26th awards after beating competition from Kester Aburam Korankye of the Daily Graphic and Francisca Enchill, a freelancer.
Gabor’s feature, titled Beggar’s Paradise, which aired on TV3 within the year under review, was adjudged the Best News Production for TV.
Gabor was also named the Health Journalist of the Year for her feature Health for Wealth.
The 26th GJA Awards, which was chaired by the former vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana Professor Ernest Aryeetey, was on the theme: “Walking the Path Towards Ghana’s Economic Recovery: the Role of the Media”.
Below is the full list of award winners:
Portia Gabor of TV3 won the GJA/PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year Award
News Reporting (Print)
- Maclean Kwofie (Daily Graphic) – COVID-19 protocol missing at Kotoka International Airport
News Reporting (Television)
- Portia Gabor (TV3) – Beggar’s Paradise
News Reporting (Radio)
- Ridwan K Osman (EIB Network)
News Reporting (Online)
- Emmanuel Bonney (Graphic Online) – Invasion of street beggars in Accra
Features (Print)
- Kester Aburam Korankye (Daily Graphic) – Attaining efficient transport system: has the BRT collapsed?
Features (TV)
- Peggy Ama Donkor (GTV) – Highway robbery in the far east of the Bono East Region
Features (Radio)
- Mavis Ofei Akyeampong – Frontline workers
Features (Online)
- Albert Oppong Mensah (GNA) – COP26: Why Ghana’s still voice?
Documentary (TV)
- Solomon Joojo Cobinna (Joy News) – Searching for the witch hunters
Best in Democracy Reporting
- Seth J Bokpe (Fourth Estate) – Testing the RTI Law
Sports
- Juliet Bawuah (TV3) – Rugby at the beach
Education
- Joseph Armstrong Alorgbey (TV3) – Contractor fails to hand over school block
Investigative Journalism
- Francisca Enchill (Joy Prime/freelance) – Pay or die: Agony of pregnant women in hospitals
Photojournalism
- Geoffrey Buta (Ghanaian Times) – Five-hour downpour destruction
Business and Economics
- Daryl Kwawu (Joy News) – The unemployment challenge
Environment and Science
- Godwin Asediba (GHOne TV) – Sanitation crisis in public toilets
Health
- Portia Gabor (TV3) – Wealth for Health
Agriculture
- Richard Kwadwo Nyarko (Joy News) – When the last fish is caught
Gender
- Benedicta A Gyimah (Ghanaian Times) – Cost of pesticides
Disability
- Samuel Amoh (Adom TV) – Rejected over elephantiasis: the story of Aziz Entsie
Tourism
- Beatrice Senaju (GBC) – Bomfobiri wildlife sanctuary: beauty in the wild
Road safety
- Kester Aburam Korankye (Daily Graphic) – Indiscipline unabated: motorway without rules
Best TV/Radio Programme in Akan
- Di Asa (Atinka TV)
Best TV/Radio Programme in Ga
- Obonu FM
Best TV Programme in English
- Newsfile (Joy News/Joy FM)
Special Award by GJA President
- James Nortey (GJA staffer at the Ghana International Press Centre)
Female Journalist of the Year
- Francisca Enchill (Joy Prime/freelance)
Komla Dumor Most Promising Journalist Award
- Emmanuel Koranteng (Joy News)
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