{"id":448950,"date":"2017-12-21T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/top-ghanaian-journalist-benedict-owusu-scoops-sports-journalist-of-the-year-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:30:29","slug":"top-ghanaian-journalist-benedict-owusu-scoops-sports-journalist-of-the-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/top-ghanaian-journalist-benedict-owusu-scoops-sports-journalist-of-the-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ghanaian journalist Benedict Owusu scoops Sports Journalist of the year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/36560569.295.jpg\" alt=\"Benedict Owusu Gja\" title=\"Benedict Owusu Gja\" width=\"295\" height=\"393\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Joy Sports&#8217; Benedict Owusu Dankwah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513855829_627_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Joy Sports&#8217; assiduous Benedict Owusu Dankwah has been awarded the 2017 Sports journalist of the year for the documentary on &#8220;Skirts on the pitch&#8221; at the 22nd Ghana Journalists Association awards.<\/p>\n<p>Dankwah&#8217;s documentary looked about how women\u2019s football started in Ghana and the struggle and frustration girls go through playing football in this country.<\/p>\n<p>He clinched the award two years ago with top piece Age cheating in football.<\/p>\n<p>And emerged the best last year with his story on juju (Black Magic) in football before claiming it again this year with his Skirts on the pitch (documentary on women in football).<\/p>\n<p>It was the third gong clinched by the budding journalist and he&#8217;s the first person to win the award three consecutive times.<\/p>\n<p>Many revelations and mind boggling conclusions were derived from his piece and we look forward to more compelling stories from the reigning sports journalist of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Dankwah\u2019s love to probe for human centered stories and as well many back stories aside what is seen on the pitch has made him a unique face in sports journalism in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s leading football website Ghanasoccernet.com acknowledges Benedict Owusu Dankwah.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Sports&#8217; Benedict Owusu Dankwah Joy Sports&#8217; assiduous Benedict Owusu Dankwah has been awarded the 2017 Sports journalist of the year for the documentary on &#8220;Skirts on the pitch&#8221; at the 22nd Ghana Journalists Association awards. Dankwah&#8217;s documentary looked about how women\u2019s football started in Ghana and the struggle and frustration girls go through playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":448952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Top Ghanaian journalist Benedict Owusu scoops Sports Journalist of the year 2017 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/top-ghanaian-journalist-benedict-owusu-scoops-sports-journalist-of-the-year-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Top Ghanaian journalist Benedict Owusu scoops Sports Journalist of the year 2017 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Joy Sports&#8217; Benedict Owusu Dankwah Joy Sports&#8217; assiduous Benedict Owusu Dankwah has been awarded the 2017 Sports journalist of the year for the documentary on &#8220;Skirts on the pitch&#8221; at the 22nd Ghana Journalists Association awards. 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