Daily Guide Reporter Goes To Oxford

Thursday January 19, 2012.

Posted on www.dailyguideghana.com

William Yaw Owusu, Senior reporter of DAILY GUIDE, Ghana’s leading private newspaper, has won the prestigious Reuters Fellowship Award. He has been offered a place at Templeton College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom to undertake a six month-long research programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Mr. Owusu is joining other journalists from around the world to undertake the course which is meant for talented and experienced mid-career journalists.

He is a member of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and holds BA in Communication Studies (Journalism Major) from the Ghana Institute of Journalism as well as Diploma in Communication Studies from the same institute.

He previously worked for Ghanaian Times, a state-owned daily newspaper from 2002-2009 where he specialized in legal, political, environmental and business/finance reporting. He is an experienced Court reporter.

Mr. Owusu, who is married, has enormous experience in reporting on human rights, social justice and political activism and aspires to move it further in an effort to ensure robust independent and free media in Ghana and the entire West African sub-region.

He was recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Business Guide, one of the newspapers produced by Western Publication.

Reuters, the leading wire service news outlet in the world, commissions a group of experienced Journalists and University of Oxford Professors to assess applications submitted by an average of 2,000 applicants every year to select the best for the course. Mr. Owusu is the fourth Ghanaian to have won the Fellowship.

Other fellows from Ghana include: Berefi Apenteng, current Managing Director, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), A. A. Blay, then with the Ghana News Agency and Frank Agyekum, then with the Ghana News Agency and current spokesperson of former President Kufuor.