{"id":1140790,"date":"2022-07-03T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/03\/doing-journalism-alone-in-ghana-will-make-you-a-beggar\/"},"modified":"2022-07-03T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:49:25","slug":"doing-journalism-alone-in-ghana-will-make-you-a-beggar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/03\/doing-journalism-alone-in-ghana-will-make-you-a-beggar\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing journalism alone in Ghana will make you a beggar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Astute sports journalist and academic Collins Clancy Atta Poku has dished out a piece of priceless advice to wannabe journalists as well as those who are already in the field.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to Atta Poku in a post on social media, wannabe journalists should get a side job else they will certainly become beggars as they journey through journalism in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Facebook, he wrote, \u201cSometimer was a teacher at Kings. Joe Lakka was a teacher at Okess. Offensive was teaching us English at Kass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese three added the Sports Journalism to it. Young Kings, don\u2019t let anyone deceive you, the journalism alone will make you a pauper, a beggar, a hypeman and a gossip. Add value to yourself and make the journalism a hobby or side job. Without value, you\u2019re treated like trash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, Atta Poku has officially said goodbye to Wontumi FM\/TV, subsidiaries of the Wontumi Communications Group. Atta Poku joined Wontumi Sports from Kessben Media in June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, Atta Poku will officially start his work as sport journalist at Kumasi-based Sompa Fm on Monday, July 4, 2022.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>VIDEO BELOW:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ERdQ52WMZ5g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Doing journalism alone in Ghana will make you a beggar - Atta Poku\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ERdQ52WMZ5g?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Astute sports journalist and academic Collins Clancy Atta Poku has dished out a piece of priceless advice to wannabe journalists as well as those who are already in the field. According to Atta Poku in a post on social media, wannabe journalists should get a side job else they will certainly become beggars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15374,85,11780],"class_list":["post-1140790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-beggar","tag-ghana","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}