Ghana News Agency
The Ghana News Agency (GNA) is the official news agency of the country of Ghana. It was founded in 1957 by Kwame Nkrumah as part of a "network of coercive and partisan institutions," in a concerted effort to present a more favorable view of the country to the outside world and to control the flow of information nationally.[1] The New York Times reported in 1964 that most of the agency's news came from Reuters (it had "only a few correspondents abroad"); the agency functioned as a gatekeeper in that it disseminated international news to the Ghanaian press, and deleted any international news critical of the Ghanaian leadership immediately, thus preventing such news from reaching the country's newspapers and radio stations.[2] Until the rise of the Pan African News Agency, the GNA was considered one of the most efficient news agencies in Africa, spreading what Nkrumah called the "clear ideology of the African Revolution"[3] and contributing to "African and Ghanaian emancipation."[4]
Initially operating as a government department, the agency became a state corporation on the day Ghana was declared a republic, in 1960.[4] While in general the Ghanaian media are hailed as relatively free, in 2001 still the GNA was claimed to be firmly pro-government.[5]
GNA's mission is to act as a catalyst to the politico-socio-economic development of Ghana and in the creation of a knowledge-based Ghanaian society through the gathering; processing and disseminating of high quality news and information of interest and relevance and in consonance with the core values of Ghanaians as a people, from the whole country, Africa and the rest of the world.
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