
Emmanuel K. Gyan, a journalist with Sky FM in Sunyani, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the second edition of the Global Media Awards.
His feature story, titled “False Start: After the Fire – Learning Under Trees in Dormaa Akwamu,” earned a nomination in the Radio and Podcast category.
The story captures the plight of pupils of Dormaa Akwamu Methodist Primary School who have been studying under trees since a fire destroyed their classrooms in December. The students still have no proper structure for teaching and learning.
They share their lessons with wandering animals, passing motorbikes, and pedestrians, as the school has no fence. Their studies are often disrupted by the weather.
The feature also highlights the persistent challenge of inadequate funding for basic education in Ghana, which continues to hinder building a strong foundation for quality teaching and learning across the country.
Save the Children, organisers of the Global Media Awards based in London, honour journalists whose work exposes and addresses major issues affecting children around the world.
This year’s finalists were selected from more than 300 entries submitted by journalists and media outlets whose stories promote accountability and inspire positive change for children.
Gyan’s work was shortlisted in the Radio and Podcast category alongside:
- BBC Radio 4: “County Lines”
- BBC Radio 4: “Missing Pieces: The Lesbian Mothers Scandal”
- Rádio Novelo: “Listen to the Children”
- Splash 105.5FM: “Period Poverty, Silence, and School Bells: The Hidden Struggle of Oyo’s Girls”
The Written News category features finalists such as:
- 7IBER Magazine: “Child Agricultural Laborers: A Stolen Childhood Under the Sun”
- BBC News Mundo: “‘No matter what age you are, you need a family’: People who decide to adopt older children that other parents do not want”
- Daraj Media: “Gaza’s Miscarriages: Generations Are Killed in Mothers’ Wombs”
- El Observador: “Living on High Alert: When Children Become ‘Guarantees’ in Drug Houses, Mules on Their Way to School, and Survivors Amid Gunfire”
- Republik: “Camps on Samos: Detention for Children, Paid for by Switzerland”
The Broadcast category includes:
- Africa Uncensored: “The Vanishing Kids of Mukuru”
- MBC: “Zero Period Climate Crisis”
- News Central TV: “Education Struggles in Makoko”
- The Guardian: “The Gaza Girl Whose Face Was ‘Ripped Off’ by an Israeli Missile Strike”
- TRT World: “Bangladesh Turns Tide on Climate Change with Floating Schools”
Finalists in the Photography category include:
- Agence France-Presse (AFP): “Colombia’s Desert North Feels the Pain of Trump’s Cuts”
- Armenian Weekly: “Childhood Under Fire”
- European Pressphoto Agency (EPA): “A Doll in Her Arms, a War on Her Childhood”
An independent panel of international journalists is reviewing the finalists. Winners will be announced during a virtual ceremony on World Children’s Day, November 20, 2025.
Jen Corlew, Director of Global Communications at Save the Children, said the awards celebrate journalists whose work amplifies children’s voices and exposes injustices that threaten their rights and well-being.
“As we celebrate the second Global Media Awards, we are inspired by the courage and dedication of journalists who continue to report on child rights and hold those responsible to account,” she said.
“By honouring these exceptional journalists, we aim to show how journalism can drive positive change for children everywhere.”
Save the Children launched the Global Media Awards in 2024 to mark 100 years since the first Declaration of the Rights of the Child—written by the organisation’s founder, Eglantyne Jebb—was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924.
Source: ghanabusinessnews.com