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The standards of journalism in Ghana is gradually falling and I fear thing could be worse if pragmatic efforts are not made to stem the trend, newly elected President of the Western Region branch of the Ghana Journalists Association, Desmond Cudjoe has said.
Even though the media standards keep falling as the day pass by, Desmond Cudjoe believes that things will change in the Western Region during his tenure in office.
The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) employee envisioned a tenure in office where journalists in the Western Region will be guided by the ethics of the profession in all their engagements.
Mr. Cudjoe said this when he together with other regional executives were sworn in on Thursday July 7, 2022 at the Sekondi Magistrate Court Complex by Her Lordship Rosemary Hayford.
He underscored the critical role journalism plays in the development paradigm of any country for which reason the profession should be one that hinges on professionalism and not sensationalism.[ads3]
He assured of a tenure that will see to it that journalism becomes an enviable profession.
The newly elected executives of the Western Region branch of the Ghana Journalists Association includes Desmond Cudjoe as the President, Kwame Mensa of EIB as the Vice President, Shirley Ewurama Smith of Media General as the Secretary and Marie Aziz Tunde of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation GBC as the Treasurer.
All four regional executives contested the elections unopposed.
For her part, the regional secretary Shirley Ewurama Smith mentioned that another area that the new executives will also pay attention to, will be the welfare journalists in the region.
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