GIJ chapter of GJA visits Graphic

MEMBERS of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association(GJA), have paid a familiarisation visit to the Graphic Communications Group Limited offices in Accra.
The association was formed by some students of the school in 2007 under the leadership of the GJA.
The President of the association, Mr Umaru Sanda Amadu said the tour was to enable the members to have a first hand experience of the theory of journalism learnt in school.
He said in GIJ, they were taught how to gather news but did not have the practice of how news was processed.
Mr Amadu noted that through the visit, processes of news gathering, packaging and publication had become clearer.
“Graphic is the right place to learn original production processes in news production,” he stated.
For his part, the Vice- President of the association, Mr Edward Kwabi, said the opportunity expanded their knowledge in news processing.
He commended the company for its efforts at providing the best journalist of the year 2009 and asked the practitioners of Graphic to keep the fire ablaze.
The members later appealed to the management of the company to allow more students from the institute to have some practical experience with the organisation at the weekends.