Accra, Dec. 15, GNA – The Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has begun sitting at the Ghana International Press Centre, Accra as a first step towards fashioning out an acceptable Constitution for the profession.
The CRC, under the Chairmanship of Mr Cab Addae, a veteran Journalist and Lawyer, is charged with developing a revised and more potent Constitution for the GJA, has till January 31 to submit its draft report to the GJA Executive.
It has representation from all the chapters of the GJA, which include Ghana News Agency, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Daily Graphic, Ghanaian Times, TV3 and Private Newspapers Publishers Association (PRINPAG).
Subjects such as the definition of who is a Journalist, whether there should be categories of membership and what awards the various categories of membership could and should win and the period needed for one to qualify to become a member would attract attention.
Members of the GJA and the public are expected to put in memoranda at a certain stages of the Committee’s proceedings.
The formation of CRC was necessitated by a row earlier this year in the interpretation of the Association’s Constitution, which threw the election of a President into disarray and made it possible for a misfit to be given GJA’s most coveted Journalist of the year award.
Source: GhanaWeb
