{"id":12554,"date":"2023-08-21T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=12554"},"modified":"2023-08-21T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:57:12","slug":"paa-kwesis-bbc-komla-dumor-award-reflects-our-professionalism-media-general-brags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=12554","title":{"rendered":"Paa Kwesi&#8217;s BBC Komla Dumor Award Reflects Our Professionalism- Media General Brags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ms Beatrice Agyeman, the Group manChief Executive Officer (GCEO) of Media General Group, has congratulated news anchor Paa Kwesi Asare for winning the 2023 BBC Komla Dumor Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TV3\u2019s News 360 anchor was named the latest recipient of the prestigious award on Monday, August 21.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the first Ghanaian to scoop the Award after it was rolled out in 2015 in honour of the late host BBC World News and Focus on Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Agyeman says the Award reflects the excellence of Ghana\u2019s leading television news station and authorities will not rest of their oars to churn out more world-class journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The Award comes barely a year after co-host of News 360 Portia Gabor was crowned Ghana Journalists\u2019 Association (GJA) Journalist of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe award is a reflection of TV3\u2019s excellence in journalism and we are motivated to continue our training programmes to build our news team into world class journalists to win more of such awards,\u201d Madam Beatrice Agyeman said.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the award, Paa Kwesi will spend three months working with BBC News teams in London across television, radio, and online.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12555\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12555\" src=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1692607201920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1692607201920.jpg 720w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1692607201920-250x183.jpg 250w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1692607201920-600x439.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paa Kwesi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He will be given the opportunity to further develop his journalism skills through training, workshops, and mentoring with leading BBC journalists.<\/p>\n<p>*Source: 3news*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Beatrice Agyeman, the Group manChief Executive Officer (GCEO) of Media General Group, has congratulated news anchor Paa Kwesi Asare for winning the 2023 BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3131],"class_list":["post-12554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-paa-kwesi-bbc-komla-award-media-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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