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Professor Audrey Sitsofe Gadzekpo is a Ghanaian media practitioner and female dean of the School of Information and Communications Studies at the University of Ghana. She was formerly a Communications Consultant and Lecturer who represented women's groups.
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In today’s world and with social media the children are going to learn about that which is a taboo in this country which is homosexuality.
Investigative journalists are the most at risk of attack and state actors, including political appointees and police, are the worst perpetrators of attacks on journalists.
Media are a public good and must be supported to survive, if nothing else in the interest of democracy.
Political faces behind broadcast media ownership mean that partisan actors and governments can control public discourse, and this is not good for our democracy.
As we globalise and link up with the wider world, we need to always be reminded of what makes us unique.
Generally, many organisations in Ghana are not profitable and are, at best, breaking even and cannot fund investigative reports because of the cost involved.
The report also found that many journalists had the feeling that law enforcement agencies and the judiciary did very little to protect their safety.
It was discovered that in most of the media houses, there was no clear-cut promotion mechanisms.
The study revealed that media ownership in the country was shrouded in opacity, with political faces found to be behind most of the broadcast media entities.
The study found that the traditional media organisations were heavily dependent on the pharmaceutical industry, especially herbal products, for adverts.
As the maxim underscoring the symbiotic relationship between democracy and media holds, where there is democracy, there must be free media and where there is free media, the political system being practised is bound to be democratic.
In terms of working conditions of the media, the study found that journalists worked in precarious conditions, with some of them working without any contract or receiving salary at all.
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