News Updates

• Raymond Archer won the Best Investigative Journalists of the Year Award for 2001-2002 by the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA). He has also been appointed News Editor and, at age 27, is therefore the youngest news editor in Ghana [or perhaps in Africa] working with the one of the biggest independent dailies and also the youngest to win the award. The IJYA is one of the most prestigious journalism awards in Ghana. In the 2001, he was a co-winner of the Best West African Journalism Awards organized by the West African Journalists Association and the sponsored by the European Commission. In 2002, he won the Global Gold Medal of the Lorenzo Natalie Prize for excellence in Journalism. In the same year, he won the Africa prize of the Lorenzo Natalie Prize organized by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and sponsored by the European Union.
  
  
• The 2nd Global Investigative Journalism Conference ended in Copenhagen on May 4 with the formation of a Global Investigative Journalism Network to support the training and sharing of information among journalists in investigative and computer-assisted reporting. Read details...