The executives of the Private Newspaper Publishers Association of Ghana(PRINPAG) has appealed to the public affairs section of the United States embassy in Ghana to support them in training journalists in the country ahead of the 2020 general election.
The training, according to PRINPAG, is to enhance the skills of the journalists in reporting on elections.
The PRINPAG entourage, led by Andrews Edwin Arthur, President of the association, said this when they paid a courtesy call on the public affairs section of the US embassy in Accra to boost their working co-operation with the embassy.
The President stated that, a support from the US embassy to enlighten and broaden the scope and skills of journalists on election reporting will improve reportage on the forthcoming Presidential and Parliamentary elections in December.
Creation of election bureau
Mr. Arthur further revealed that, PRINPAG will create an election bureau in consultation and collaboration with the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Ministry of Information, to organise nationwide fora for all political parties to sell their manifestoes, sector by sector, to the media and the electorates.
He stated that this will give voters the opportunity to make informed choices during the elections.
The US embassy Press attache, Naomi A. Mattos, expressed her joy for the rekindling of three decades of working collaboration between the public affairs section and PRINPAG.
She stated that Ghana is her first station in Africa and tasked the new executives of PRINPAG to continue the good works of their forebears, who were principally political agitators, human rights advocates and professional journalists with no business background as pertains in the advance democracies.
The US embassy in the past years had offered funding support to PRINPAG members in computer literacy in the year 2000, training workshops amongst several other programs.
SOURCE: eveningmailgh.com
