Peggy Ama Donkor, a distinguished broadcast journalist and member of The Church of Pentecost, has been named the Channel Manager for Ghana Television (GTV) Main Channel, the flagship channel of the seven GBC channels.
Her appointment, detailed in a letter dated January 17, 2025, became effective on January 20, 2025. She succeeds Barbara Gaisie, who is on leave pending her retirement.
Prior to this role, Peggy served as the Channel Manager for Ghana Learning TV (GL-TV), GBC’s educational channel.
Peggy joined GBC officially in January 1999 after completing a year of national service and eight months of volunteering. Throughout her career, she has worked as a general reporter and has produced and directed numerous programmes, including the GTV main news, Talking Point, The Debate, and Regional Diary. She has also been involved in script editing of stories for the corporation.
Peggy is a highly decorated journalist with over 12 awards, including the GJA Journalist of the Year 2004 and the Ghana Leadership Journalist of the Year 2020. Her accolades date back to her student days at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), now the University of Media Arts and Communication (UniMAC), where she graduated as the Most Promising Female Journalist (The Gifty Afenyi-Dadzie’s Award) in 1997.
She holds qualifications from GIJ, the University of Ghana, Cardiff University, and the Leeds University in the UK, along with certificates from prestigious institutions such as Reuters in the UK and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra.
Peggy’s professional experience includes roles at Atinka TV, where she was the first Programmes and Content Manager, and at Pent TV, where she served as the first Content and Programmes Manager from February to September 2015.
In her church, Peggy has been a Sunday school teacher at the Burma Camp Worship Centre for over two decades. She has also served on various boards and committees of the church, including the National Radio/TV Ministry, Public Affairs Committee, Pentmedia Board, and the Ministry to Persons with Disabilities (MPWDs).
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