The University of Professional
Studies, Accra (UPSA) is to host the 2019 edition of the Newsroom Contest
scheduled to begin on Monday, November 4, and end on Tuesday, November 12,
2019.
This year’s contest is the fourth
edition since it was instituted in 2015, with the goal of injecting an
extracurricular activity in the training of communication students by giving
them the needed experiential value in the field of Journalism, Public
Relations, Advertising and Integrated Communication among others, and also
expose them to best communication practices geared towards national
development.
According to the Founder and
President of the Newsroom Contest, Mr. Raymond Baxey, the Newsroom Contest
contributes in deepening the understanding of communication and its practice outside
the lecture halls, adding “it builds their confidence in the area of writing,
public speaking, communication strategies and research and makes them more
analytical.”
He noted that the novelty with this
year’s contest is the report to be generated from the contest on the
performance of students highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. This
report he said would be submitted to authorities of competing universities with
the aim of contributing to academia to arrest any shortfall in the training of
communication students. “I believe this is another way of contributing to the
communication training and the industry at large,” he added.
The semi-finalists of this year’s
contest he said would have the opportunity to represent Ghana in a maiden
ECOWAS Newsroom Contest to be hosted in Ghana, in March next year, when the
Newsroom Contest turns five years.
Mr. Baxey noted that six universities
would be vying for the coveted prize and the bragging right as the best school
offering communication and media related programmes.
