The Directors of Global NewsWatch Media and Communications, managers of newswatchgh.com, have on separate days paid courtesy calls on two Envoys accredited to Ghana to solidarise with them and to share ideas on how the media organisation could collaborate with them in media related work.
The visits to the new Cuban Ambassador to Ghana, Her Excellency Anette Chao Garcia and His Excellency the Most Rev. Henryk M. Jagodzinski, Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, also offered the NewsWatch Directors the opportunity to share the operations of the organisation and its news agency, the mission, vision and the successes chalked so far as a young media organisation which focuses on religion and social development news.
The visit to the Cuban Ambassador in her office in Accra afforded the Directors, Mr. Robert Dela Mawuenyegah and Mr. Damian Dieu Donne Avevor, who are members of the Cuban Solidarity Movement in Ghana, the opportunity also to share their experiences of long standing relationship with the Cuban Embassy.
They also discussed media related issues and how they could continue to offer communication support and services to the Embassy as they had done over the years.
Mr. Mawuenyegah and Mr. Avevor, Executive Director and Director of Editorial and News respectively of Global NewsWatch, congratulated Her Excellency Chao Garcia as the first female Cuban Ambassador to Ghana.
In her remark, Her Excellency Chao Garcia thanked Mr. Mawuenyegah and Mr. Avevor, who are the Editor and Supervising Editor respectively of newswatchgh.com for solidarising with her and the Embassy.
As a friend to the NewsWatch Directors, she assured them of the Embassy’s continuous collaboration.
Meeting Archbishop Jagodzinski in his office, the Directors who are staunch Catholics, shared their working relations with the Nunciature as Catholic media practitioners who had worked with the Church in Ghana and contributed to the Church Media over the years.
The NewsWatch Directors also discussed with the Nuncio the mission and vision of newswatcgh.com, informing him “Newswatchgh.com is an Online News Agency owned by the Global NewsWatch Media and Communications, with the aim of providing cutting-edge news on religion and social development as well as offering multimedia and communications services.”
They collectively informed the Nuncio that the mission of newswatchgh.com was to promote religion and developmental journalism to ensure publicity for all religious and social development activities in Ghana and beyond.
“Our vision is to become the most renowned online news agency in Ghana that reports solely on religion and social development activities as well to promote interreligious dialogue for the development of Ghana and Africa,” they said.
The Directors told the Nuncio that as Catholic media practitioners, they had published many Catholic stories to supplement the efforts of the already existing Church media in Ghana as well as help promote the activities of the Catholic Church in Ghana to rest of world.
Archbishop Jagodzinski was happy to meet the NewsWatch team and thanked them for publicising some of his activities since his arrival in the West African country last year.
He pledged his continuous collaboration and prayed that through newswatcghg.com, the existing ecumenical relation between the Catholic Church and other religions in Ghana would be made known.
He also thanked the NewsWatch Directors for working closely with the Catholic Church as media Practitioners over the years.
As part of the visit, Mr. Mawuenyegah presented a copy of a book titled: The Journey to the Priesthood: Priests Tell Their Stories to Nuncio. It was authored by Rev. Fr. Albin Kissi Ernim of the Sekondi-Takoradi Diocese and published by Global NewsWatch Media and Communications.
Mr. Mawuenyegah was the former Programme Officer for the Department of Social Communications (DEPSOCOM) of the National Catholic Secretariat in Accra. He worked closely with the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the various Departments, Directorates, and Units within the Secretariat. As an astute Communications, Events and Management Professional with more than a decade of professional practice, he was the Communications and Administrative Officer for Ubora Institute, a Pan African not- for profit organisation incorporated in Ghana as ‘Ubora Quality INSTITUTE’. He is a member in good standing with the Ghana Journalists Association and the Institute of Public Relations, Ghana.
Mr. Avevor, a twice International Award Winning Journalist, was the former News Editor of Ghana’s National Catholic Weekly, The Catholic Standard, where he worked for 17 years, as a reporter, senior reporter, chief reporter and the first ever News Editor.
He has over 300 published news stories and articles mostly Catholic, to his credit in the international media and over 1,000 in the local media. He contributed stories on the Church in Ghana to the Catholic News Service in America; Vatican Radio, Vatican News, Catholic News Agency for Africa in Kenya; Catholic Information Service of Africa News, Kenya; ACI Africa, EWTN Africa version in Kenya, New People Magazine, in Kenya and Global Sisters Report in America.
He is also a member in good standing with the Ghana Journalists Association and an Affiliate Member in good standing of the Institute of Public Relations, Ghana.
