Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has been calling on members to submit their works for consideration at the 2016 edition of the GJA Awards.
The award ceremony was launched on Monday, April 11 and the main event is anticipated to take place in August.
The association is therefore inviting entries for various categories for the award which is slated for Saturday, August, 20, 2016, at the State Banquet Hall in Accra.
Entries must be works published or broadcast from the period from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
Below are the categories:
Category One: (Separate awards for radio and Television and Print)
News Reporting
Sports
Education
Features
Category Two: (Award to cater both Print and Electronics)
Investigative Reporting
Photo Journalism
Arts/Entertainment &Domestic Tourism
Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Award for Business/Finance & Economic Reporting
Small and Micro Scale Enterprise (SMEs)
Environment
Health (Including HIV and AIDS)
Development Journalism for furthering the SDG”s
Parliamentary Reporting
Human Rights (with focus on child protection)
Political Reporting
Crime & Court Reporting
Sanitation & Hygiene
Disability
Telecommunication
Digital Journalism (Including Blogging)
Anti-Corruption
Science
Oil and Gas
Anti-Narcotics
Agriculture
Local Governance & Decentralisation
Rural Reporting (with focus on Elimination Worst forms of Child Labour)
Category Three: (Print Media Specific)
Columnist
Best Cartoonist
Category Four: (Media Houses Only)
Democracy & Peace Building
Best Layout and Designed Newspaper
Best Rural Radio Station
Best Radio/TV Programme- Akan
Best Radio/TV Programme– Dagbani
Best Radio/TV Programme- Ewe
Radio/TV programme – GaRadio/TV programme – Hausa
Radio/TV programme – Nzema
Category Five:
GJA/Komla Dumor Most Promising Young Journalist
GJA/Professor P. V. Ansah Journalist of the year
