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Roger A. Agana

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Roger A Agana
Born
Roger Agambire Agana

NationalityGhanaian
Alma materWeb Developer and SEO Expert
Occupation(s)Blogger, digital journalist, reporter
Known forOnline journalism
Websitenewsghana.com.gh

Roger Agambire Agana, better known as Label, is a journalist from the Upper East Region of Ghana.

Life and career

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Agana nurtured an interest in digital journalism and later co-founded Modernghana.com in 2005.[1]

He took over the management of Spy Ghana in 2012 and later rebranded it as News Ghana.[2] Today it is Ghana's most popular online news portal.[3]

Computer Background

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Agana is a member of Penplusbytes (International Institute for ICT Journalism) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Association for Computing Machinery, IFEJ Ghana (Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists).[4]

Economic contribution

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He revealed his plans towards economic growth for Ghana with the rapper Asumadu[5][6][7]]

Awards and nominations

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2017 Forty Under 40 awards Media (Digital & Social) Won [8]
2017 Forty Under 40 awards Journalism (Radio/ TV/ Newspaper) Nominated [9]
2017 3rd annual Creative African Awards (CA Awards) 2017 Best Journalist Won [10]
2017 3rd annual Creative African Awards (CA Awards) 2017 Best News Editor Nominated [11]

References

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  1. ^ "Who Is Roger A Agana Of News Ghana?". Modernghana.com. Modernghana. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Meet The Managing Director Of News Ghana". Admin. NewsGhana. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Spy Ghana Rebrands To Become News Ghana". modernghana. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Roger A. Agana's Page". penplusybytes. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Make Creativity A Hallmark Of Ghana's Economic Growth". Admin. NewsGhana. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Creativity As A Tool For Economic Growth; Rapper Asumadu Reveals". peacefmonline. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Rapper Asumadu and Roger Agana discuss challenges in Music and Media". spynewsagency. Jeorge Wilson Kingson. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Full list of winners at 2017 forty Under 40 Award". kasapafmonline.com. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  9. ^ "nominee list". 40under40awards.com.gh. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  10. ^ "CA Awards 2017, the winners". chubmagazine.com. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  11. ^ "CA Awards 2017 finalists". chubmagazine.com. 3 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
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