In my journey to become a journalist, I think it is important I listened to Nana Aba Anamoah because it was difficult to see myself clearly.
From my perspective, I guess, my parents did well on my choosing path for not insisting my academic choices after my first degree in Banking and finance.
I think I could call them the three levels of human relationships.
- In the first level of friendship, we see people forging bonds of mutual affection and empathy in the course of ordinary day-to-day activities. They seek to enjoy their lives together. It’s friendship based on mutual enjoyment, on having a good time together.
- The second level of friendship is a little more advanced. The friends have their own goals; they each have a clear vision of the kind of person they want to become, the kind of future they want to build, the kind of contribution they wish to make to humanity. So they encourage and support one another as they work to realise their dreams and make something of themselves in the country in which they were both born. This is a friendship of mutual encouragement.
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What about your first experience of setting out for the Banking and finance degree?
My dream was that I wanted to be a cabin crew, and through my fathers advice I enrolled in the school of Banking and Finance and I ended up working with the Ghana Stock Exchange.
I went through that job and I had the chance to really look at myself and learned that I had to develop my pundit skills in the area of social services, entertainment and more.
Once I decided on that was when I met Nana Aba Anamoah who believed in me and encouraged me to start my TV journey to pursue a different path.
That’s perfectly all right. Few people started out with the ambition of doing what they are doing.
If you have decided on the job as a Ghanaian broadcast journalist and news presenter who currently works with GHOne and won the Television Female Newscaster of the Year Award at the 2018 Radio and Television Personality Awards, then I hope you will not quit or feel insecure.
Nevertheless, after you’ve given it all in this job as a news broadcaster, my concern is to never forget that we are responsible for our environment when we make decisions.
Taking your place as a member of the Ghanaian society is a challenge. Where you are now is exactly where you need to be, so you must strive there to the best of your ability.
You are right. Reporting should become more responsible, free from any underlying bias towards certain interests or complicity in a particular agenda. That means a new ethics for Journalism that lifts it away from any kind of unfair sideded stories and shape the reality.
As you have mentioned, those are solid, valuable ideas. The people’s reporter is something I and Nana Aba Anamoah seriously consider. With the objective to keep the news real to make people smile.
I think there are good reasons for your suggestions.
Thank you TSASI.
