Multimedia's Seth Kwame Boateng has been adjudged the 2014 GJA/Prof. PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year .

“God has been indeed good. I am grateful to God. It is a miracle…..I didn’t dream a day like this wIll come” Seth Kwame Boateng said.

At the annual awards ceremony held at the Banquet Hall in Accra Saturday, Seth Kwame Boateng did not only pick the PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year Award, he also bagged three others on the night.

A plaque in his honour praised him for “thorough research” and  enviable “consistency” on the job.

Seth’s documentaries last year led to massive changes.

He entered six highly competitive stories - Silent Killer, which was on hypertension; Pain from Cursed Cells, which was on sickle cell; Bloody Land, which was on communal violence at Nakpanduri; I fall, I shake, I die, on epilepsy; Borrowed Manhood, on circumcision gone bad and Buyin Life which was on childhood cancer - for the awards.

Multimedia walked away with an impressive plunder of the awards. Joy FM's Kwetey Nartey bagged two. Joseph Gakpo's story on poverty alleviation won him an award. Joy Sports' Benedict Owusu and Myjoyonline.com's photojournalist David Andoh won their categories.

Joseph Opoku Gakpo (Joy FM) - Poverty alleviation (Millennium)

 

LIST OF WINNERS

Seth J. Bokpe - GJA Komla Dumor Most Promising Young Journalist Award

Seth Kwame Boateng (Joy FM) Features on Radio – (Bloody land)

Seth Kwame Boateng – Features on Television (I shake I walk)

Gabriel Ahiabor (Daily Graphic) - (Energy self-sufficiency; village of Dadekokpe)

Gabriel Ahiabor (Daily Graphic) - Agriculture – (Watermelon not just water and sugar)

Abdul Moomen (GTV) - Human rights – (Killing the spirit of children)

Wendy Laryea (TV3) – Education - (The waiting is over)

Wendy Laryea (TV3) - Digital journalism - (From floor to desk)

Rebecca Awuah (GBC) – Arts and Tourism

Elvis Darko (Finder) – Courts and crime (One woman, two husbands)

Mabel Aku Baneseh (Daily Graphic) – Anti-corruption – (Rot at National Service Scheme)

Daniel Nonor (Chronicle) - Environment - (Galamsey)

Kwetey Nartey(Joy FM) - Investigative Reporting - (Red light beats)

Kwetey Nartey (Joy FM) - Narcotics - (Narcotic school boys)

Jamila Akweley (Daily Guide) Liquid gold best food ever

Zadok K. Gyesi (Daily Graphic) Small and Medium Enterprise (Unnoticed gold mining)

Samuel Adadi Akapule (GNA)

Della Rusell Ocloo (Daily Graphic) - Sanitation - (Ongoing battle with Zinginshor)

David Andoh (Myjoyonline) - Photography – (Two motorbikes in head-on collision)

Kafui Kaney (GNA) - Rural reporting; Child labour - (Kids abandon school)

Alberto Mario Noretti (Ghanaian Times) - Rural reporting – (Dabi dabi where no one dies)

Doreen Hammond (Daily Graphic) - Education (print) - (The state of libraries)

Samuel Kyei Boateng (Daily Graphic) News (print) 

Ayele Ayittey ( TV Africa) - Disability ( Who leans sign language)

Nii A. Klu (GBC Obonu)  Best Ga programme

Nana Konadu Agyemang ( Taxis as hearse)

Moses Dotse Aklorbortu (Daily Graphic) -Oil and gas (Oil rigs beg for decommissioning)

Felix Klutse ( Business Day) - Indigenous banks

Benedict Owusu (Joy FM) - Sports (Age cheating)

Rebecca Ekpe (GBC ) Local governance