Ajoa Yeboah-Afari is new Editor of Ghanaian Times

Accra, Dec. 30, GNA - Ms. Ajoa Yeboah-Afari, President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) will from January 2 next year, assume office as the Editor of the Ghanaian Times, thus becoming the first woman to be Editor the state-owned daily.

A statement signed by the Managing Director of the New Times Corporation (NTC), Nabanyin Pratt, said in Accra that the Board of Directors of NTC in consultation with the Public Services Commission made the appointment.

"Ms. Yeboah-Afari, an award winning Journalist and a Former Deputy Editor of the Graphic Communications Group was until recently the First Public Affairs Officer of the Commonwealth Secretariat...

"She brings to her job as the Editor of the Ghanaian Times, a formidable reputation in news gathering and editing, having worked as correspondent of the African Service of the BBC, West African Magazine, the Inter Press Service, Women's Feature Service, The Internationalist, Gemini News Service...," the statement said.

Ms Yeboah-Afari is currently the co-ordinator for the Media Foundation for West Africa, Consulting News and Current Affairs Editor for TV Africa and Correspondent, Panos Features of London. She attended the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where she graduated with distinction and the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin, Germany.

She is also a product of the Paris-based Journalists-in-Europe Programme in addition to several other international courses attended between 1972 and the present.

Her appointment was made in line with the functions of the NTC Board as enshrined in article 169 of the Constitution.