Prince has ten years’ working experience as a broadcast journalist. He enjoys reporting on road safety, health, gender and the environment. Prince holds a degree in Human Resource Management (HRM) from Cape Coast University. He will like to use his journalism to bring positive change to the world and all mankind. …
Albert Oppong-Ansah
Albert is an environment and science journalist. He works for the Ghana News Agency and occasionally freelances for the Inter Press Service. Oppong-Ansah has won several journalism awards and his work has shaped environmental policies such the involvement of the leadership of Persons with Disabilities in national climate change programs. His story on plastics also…
Michael Asharley
Michael is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon where he majored in Psychology. He cultivated a passion for storytelling by volunteering at the campus radio station, Radio Univers. Since joining JoyNews in 2021 he has dedicated much of his output to shedding light on climate-related stories and sanitation issues. He played a pivotal…
Mohammed Fugu
Mohammed is the Northern, North East and Savannah Regional correspondent for the Graphic Communications Group Limited. He is very passionate about issues related to environment, climate change and rural development. He has produced a number of in-depth news reports on the environment, shining light on how the ecosystem of Ghana is being destroyed by human…
Peter Quao Adattor
Peter is an experienced video journalist with over 20 years of dedicated work in highlighting under-reported issues impacting Ghanaians and Africans. His work largely focuses on areas including security, environment, child labor, gender, migration, education, health, boxing, and other social concerns. He is the founder of PAQ Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to providing education,…
Daniel Abugre Anyorigya
Daniel is an award-winning journalist. He is credited with co-authoring five environmental investigative pieces, and articles on the carbon market and human rights. He is a co-founder of the Gurene Wikimedia Community, which is focused on digitizing the Gurene language and its people on Wikimedia Foundation projects….
Nii Adjei Mensahfio
Nii Adjei is a photojournalist with the Daily Guide Newspaper in Accra. He has over six years of experience in photojournalism and mainstream media reporting; as well as 10 years’ experience as a professional photographer with his own brand, Bamman Studios. He has a Diploma in Communication Studies (Journalism) and a Bachelor of Arts Degree…
Elizabeth Abena Egyin
Elizabeth’s interests include social, business and environmental reporting. She enjoys producing social and environmental stories the most. She aspires to reveal untold stories and amplify the voices of the marginalized as she understands that accurate and unbiased reporting is not just a duty, but a profound responsibility that can spark meaningful change. She is working towards cultivating a new generation of truth-speakers and change-makers through mentorship and training by…
Ato-Kwamena Dadzie Director, New Narratives Ghana
Ato-Kwamena Dadzie has worked with the most influential news organisations in Ghana in the course of his more than 20-year career. He is recognized as a newsroom leader who enjoys training and mentoring journalists. Ato joins New Narratives with experience in newsroom leadership and the management of donor-sponsored media development programmes. He holds a Master…
Government Says It Has Cut Poverty but the World Bank Says It’s Rising.
When he took office in 2018 President George Weah promised his government would lift one million Liberians out of poverty by the end of his six year term. Half Liberia’s five million people live below in the poverty line. In January the Weah government declared a victory that surprised many people: it claimed to have…
Call for Applications for 10-month Fellowships Reporting on Air Pollution in Ghana
New Narratives is pleased to call for applications from leading Ghanaian journalists to join our project supporting fact-based, people-centered journalism on issues of air pollution in Ghana. Air pollution kills 6.7 million people around the world every year. 91% of those premature deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries. Air pollution is the second biggest…
New Narratives to Launch Clean Air Journalism Project in Ghana
New Narratives is thrilled to announce a new project with our partners at the Center for Innovation and Development (CJID) to support fact-based, people-centered journalism on issues of air pollution in Ghanaian media with support from the Clean Air Fund….
Job Alert: Senior Editor/Project Manager – Ghana
Job Location: Accra, Ghana Full Time Deadline: June 28th, 2023 The Center for Journalism Innovation and Development and New Narratives invite applications for a newly created role in our Ghana team to lead editorial output and manage partnerships supporting journalism on air pollution. This role will suit an entrepreneurial, senior journalist and team player with…
Sinoe Forest Community Fumes Over Numerous Illegalities by Forestry Development Agency As Lawmaker’s Company Wins Concession
Community members here in Tartweh and Drapoe chiefdoms are fuming over a range of what they claim are violations of Liberian laws by the country’s forest management body the Forestry Development Agency….
Communities Drowning in Trash Furious Over Failed US$3M Waste Management Project – Part Two
In part two of this two-part investigation Anthony Stephens and Tina S. Menhpaine report with New Narratives on the obstacles that doomed a $3m EU-funded waste management project….
Breaking the Chains – After Being Trafficked to Oman a Group of Liberian Women Decided to Take Matters into Their Own Hands
Esther thought she was boarding a flight that would take her to a lucrative job in Dubai. Instead, she landed in Muscat, Oman, where she was beaten and sold into modern-day slavery. This is the incredible story of how Esther, and hundreds of other Liberian women, worked together to free themselves from human trafficking syndicates. …
The EU’s Failed US$3M Bid to Fix Monrovia’s Trash Crisis – part one
In this two-part investigation, Anthony Stephens and Tina S. Menhpaine report with New Narratives on a US$3 million European Union project that was meant to solve Monrovia’s trash crisis….
“Hacks and Hackers: Liberia” – Digital Transformation Workshop for Media and Technologists
Liberia’s media institutions received a major boost when the Swedish Embassy in Monrovia funded a digital revenue workshop with regional pioneers Premium Times aimed at helping media learn to raise independent revenue from online sources and donors. The “Hack and Hackers” Digital Transformation for Newsroom training provided Liberian media and technologists the opportunity to learn and conceive new and innovative products to generate revenue. …
Liberia: Witness accuses Massaquoi of ruining his life by forcing him to carry arms and ammunition
X-9 alleged that ex-Revolutionary United Front (RUF) commander, Gibril Massaquoi, abducted him from his school in Sierra Leone and forced him to carry arms and ammunition for the RUF. byNew Narratives March 31, 2023 Reading Time: 2 mins read 0 X-9,” as the Finnish Appeals Court co-named him, sounded regretful, when he reflected on what…
Jefferson Massah Alum
Jefferson Massah is the Senior Advisor with Internews in Liberia. Previously he was a fellow in New Narratives’s Oil Reporting program with Thomson Reuters Foundation. He was the head of Programs and Training at Radio Gbarnga in Liberia’s second biggest city. Jefferson spent more than 10 years in radio management and training, particularly in the…
Eric Opa Doue Senior NN Correspondent
Eric Opa Doue contested the 2023 Legislative elections for a seat in River Cess County. Before that he was a senior reporter with New Narratives with his journalism appearing in FrontPage Africa, ELBC radio and other radio stations. He has been with New Narratives since 2017. Eric is a an experienced community radio journalist based…