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Newsfile hosted its 5th edition of Joy Change-Speakers Series where panellists shared their views on the role of the media and proffer brief recommendations for the improvement of the country.
The fifth edition of Joy Change-Speakers Series was on the theme ‘Media and National Development: Premise, Promise and Practice.’
The show was hosted by Samson Lardy Anyenini with assistance from Dr Theodora Dame Adjin-Tetteh of the University of Ghana’s Department of Communication Studies.

The guests for the programme were the Head of the Department, the Department of Communication
Studies of the University of Ghana, Dr Abena Animwaa Yeboah-Banin, Executive Director, Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah and President of the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association, Cecil Thomas Sunkwa-Mills.

The others are the Former President of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA), Affail Monney, CEO of The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, Esther Armah and Director General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Prof. Amin Alhassan.
Watch the discussion below.
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