Portia Gabor of TV3 is the 2021 Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Journalist of the Year.
Portia Gabor picked the award at the GJA Awards night on Saturday, 12 November 2022.
She also picked up the Best in Television news reporting with the story “Beggar’s Paradise” and Best in Health reporting with the story “Wealth for health”.
Below are the other award winners:
Portia Gabor of TV3 won the GJA/PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year Award
News Reporting (Print) – Maclean Kwofi (Daily Graphic) – Covid-19 Protocol missing at Kotoka International Airport
News Reporting (Television) – Portia Gabor (TV3) – Beggar’s Paradise
News Reporting (Radio) – Ridwan K. Osman (EIB Network)
News Reporting (Online) – Emmanuel Bonney (Graphic Online) – Invasion of street beggars in Accra
Features (Print) – Kester Aburam Korankye (Daily Graphic) – Attaining Efficient transport system, has the BRT collapsed
Features (TV)– Peggy Ama Donkor (GTV) – Highway Robbery in the far east of the Bono East Region
Features (Radio) – Mavis Ofei Akyeampong – Frontline workers
Features (Online) – Albert Oppong Mensah (GNA) – COP26: Why Ghana’s still voice
Documentary (TV) – Solomon Joojo Cobinna (Joy News) – Searching for the witch hunters
Best in Democracy Reporting – Seth J. Bokpe (Fourth Estate) – Testing the RTI Law
Sports – Juliet Bawuah (TV3) – Rugby at the beach
Education – Joseph Armstrong Alorgbey (TV3) – Contractor fails to hand over school block
Investigative Journalism – Francisca Enchill (Joy Prime / Freelance) – Pay or die: Agony of pregnant women in hospitals
Photo Journalism – Geoffrey Buta (Ghanaian Times) – Five-hour downpour destruction
Business and Economics – Daryl Kwawu (Joy News) – The unemployment challenge Environment and Science – Godwin Asediba (GHOne TV) – Sanitation crisis in public toilets
Health – Portia Gabor (TV3) – Wealth for health
Agriculture – Richard Kwadwo Nyarko (Joy News) – When the last fish is caught
Gender – Benedicta A. Gyimah (Ghanaian Times) – Cost of pesticides Disability – Samuel Amoh (Adom TV) – Rejected over elephantiasis – the story of Aziz Entsie
Tourism – Beatrice Senaju (GBC) – Bomfobiri wildlife sanctuary, beauty in the wild
Road safety – Kester Aburam Korankye (Daily Graphic) – Indiscipline unabated, motorway without rules
Best TV/Radio Programme in Akan – Di Asa (Atinka TV) Best TV/Radio Programme in Ga – ObonuFM
Best TV Programme in English – Newsfile (Joy News/Joy FM)
Special Award by GJA President – James Nortey (GJA Staff at the Ghana International Press Centre)
Female Journalist of the Year – Francisca Enchill (Joy Prime / Freelance) Komla Dumor Most Promising Journalist Award – Emmanuel Koranteng (Joy News)
GJA/PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year – Portia Gabor (TV3)
