Portia Gabor of TV3 wins GJA 2021 Journalist of the Year

Portia Gabor of TV3 is the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) 2021 Journalist of the Year.

Portia Gabor warded off competition from Kester Aburam Korankye of the Daily Graphic and Francisca Enchill, a freelancer.

The three of them picked up two awards each at the 26th GJA Awards on Saturday night.

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Kester Aburam Korankye received the Best in Features for Print with the story "Attaining Efficient transport system, has the BRT collapsed" and Best in Road Safety with the story, "Indiscipline unabated, motorway without rules".

Francisca Enchill on her part picked up the Female Journalist of Year Award and Best in Investigative Journalism with the story "Pay or die: Agony of pregnant women in hospitals".

Portia Gabor picked up the Best in Television news reporting with the story "Beggar’s Paradise" and Best in Health reporting with the story "Wealth for health" and crowned it with the ultimate - Journalist of the Year.

Related: At the 26th GJA Awards - Whoever killed Ahmed Suale does not deserve to live - NMC

Whoever killed journalist Ahmed Suale, does not deserve to live, the Chairman of the National Media Commission, Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh has said.

Addressing the 26th GJA Awards ceremony in Accra on Saturday night on the theme, "Walking the path towards Ghana's economic recovery; the role of the media," Mr Boadu-Ayeboafoh said it was worrying that the case of Suale has not been solved as of now.

He also recalled the murder of another journalist, Samuel Ennin in 2007, who was the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the GJA, which has also not been solved as of now.

Portia Gabor of TV3 wins GJA 2021 Journalist of the Year https://t.co/JleeRwcktt pic.twitter.com/nUMbEaf6Xr

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Award winners

Portia Gabor of TV3 won the GJA/PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year Award

News Reporting (Print)

• Maclean Kwofi (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 to

Investigative Journalism

• Francisca Enchill (Joy Prime / Freelance ) - Pay or die: Agony of pregnant women in hospitals

Photo Journalism

• 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 Staff 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)

GJA/PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year

• Portia Gabor (TV3)

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