{"id":678140,"date":"2019-08-10T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p>OKYENHENE OSAGYEFUO Amoatia Ofori Panin has urged journalists to write positive stories about Ghana rather than propagating negative news about personalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the just-ended Eastern Regional Ghana Journalists Associat"},"modified":"2019-08-10T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:01:08","slug":"okyenhene-urges-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/10\/okyenhene-urges-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Okyenhene Urges Journalists &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>OKYENHENE OSAGYEFUO Amoatia Ofori Panin has urged journalists to write positive stories about Ghana rather than propagating negative news about personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the just-ended Eastern Regional Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) awards, he said journalism was a noble profession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalism is a noble profession, so please help us speak truth to power and write good stories to inform and to entertain. Help us, my friends, not to write negative stories about personalities that you will not like,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cthe people who have pass-through this association have been great men and women of the past, and that, I urged you to continue working hard for this country to be transformed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Daniel Bampoe<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKYENHENE OSAGYEFUO Amoatia Ofori Panin has urged journalists to write positive stories about Ghana rather than propagating negative news about personalities. Speaking at the just-ended Eastern Regional Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) awards, he said journalism was a noble profession. \u201cJournalism is a noble profession, so please help us speak truth to power and write good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Okyenhene Urges Journalists - 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\/2019\/08\/10\/okyenhene-urges-journalists\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Okyenhene Urges Journalists - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"OKYENHENE OSAGYEFUO Amoatia Ofori Panin has urged journalists to write positive stories about Ghana rather than propagating negative news about personalities. 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