The Daily Graphic Editor and suit contest, which kick off on 8 November and yielded no result, is far from over. The local Union of Graphic Communication Group Limited has in a letter to the board of the company expressed dismay at the failure of the panel to give the job to any of the seven contestants.
The letter copied to the Board Chairman, the Executive Secretary of the National Media Commission and the General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union said the disqualification of the seven senior journalist on the pretext that none of them has managerial skills is unacceptable.
?the appointment of an editor of the newspaper from outside the organisation will be very serious indictment not only on editorial staffs, but also on the whole company.? The union said it has read between the lines that there are external forces that are pulling the strings to deny competent journalists the opportunity to edit the paper.
The union is of the view that appointing an editor outside the Graphic newsroom will kill morale in the up and coming journalists, whose ultimate aim is to aspire to the top of the profession. The union therefore appealed to the management to take a second look at the plan to recruit an editor from outside.
In its 18 to 24 November Edition ?Public Agenda? published a story of how seven senior journalists of the paper, dressed in their best suits, attended the interview for the lucrative job of Editor of Graphic. But after hours of grilling the contestants the panel decided not to give the job to any of them.
Management subsequently put an advertisement inviting applicants from outside. ?Public Agenda? has learnt that the Executive Secretary of the National Media Commission, Yaw Boadu Ayeboafoh is among the fresh applicants for the job. ?Public Agenda? has also learnt Adjoa Yeboah-Afari, a former Deputy Editor of the Mirror is also eyeing the job.
Adjoa has just completed a six-year duty with the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. With the union pushing for the appointment for someone with the search for the Graphic Editor could no longer than expected.
Source: GhanaWeb
