{"id":1211909,"date":"2022-09-27T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/gridco-board-chair-amb-kabral-blay-amihere-kufuor-and-others-honoured-for-their-media-activism\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:54:47","slug":"gridco-board-chair-amb-kabral-blay-amihere-kufuor-and-others-honoured-for-their-media-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/gridco-board-chair-amb-kabral-blay-amihere-kufuor-and-others-honoured-for-their-media-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIDCo Board Chair Amb. Kabral Blay-Amihere; Kufuor and others honoured for their media activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-265066\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"519\"  alt=\"\" title=\"GRIDCO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GRIDCO-696x519.png\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"519\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GRIDCO-696x519.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"GRIDCO\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><b>Board Chairman of the Ghana Grid Company\u00a0Limited (GRDICo), Amb. Kabral Blay-Amihere and 14 others including former President John Agyekum Kufuor were honoured for their media activism, contribution to free speech, media training, and policies that led to expansion of press freedom in Ghana.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Amb. Blay-Amihere is a Veteran Journalist who was at the forefront of media activism from the 80\u2019s until the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>He is a former President of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) and West-Africa Journalist Association, Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC) and publisher of the Independent Newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GRIDCOooooo-215x300.png\" data- class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-265070 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-265070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GRIDCOooooo-215x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>After 25 years of media practice, he transitioned into other roles as Diplomat and Author.<\/p>\n<p>The award is the initiative of the Centre for Media and Culture led by Enimil Ashong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: 3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"td-block-row td-post-next-prev\">\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-prev-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Previous article<\/span>\u2018I just needed to stop\u2019 \u2013 Serena Williams opens up about retiring<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board Chairman of the Ghana Grid Company\u00a0Limited (GRDICo), Amb. Kabral Blay-Amihere and 14 others including former President John Agyekum Kufuor were honoured for their media activism, contribution to free speech, media training, and policies that led to expansion of press freedom in Ghana. Amb. Blay-Amihere is a Veteran Journalist who was at the forefront of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[17195,23156,26417,1569,3740,26418,5911,26419,6407,1943],"class_list":["post-1211909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-activism","tag-amb","tag-blayamihere","tag-board","tag-chair","tag-gridco","tag-honoured","tag-kabral","tag-kufuor","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211909","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=1211909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}