Francisca Kakra Forson

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Francisca Kakra Forson
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NationalityGhanaian
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Francisca Kakra Forson (born 21 March 1987) is a Ghanaian lawyer and leading female journalist, practising across major news media in Ghana including The Midday News on Joyfm and Joynews Tv (Multimedia Group) and Metro Tv and also on the international front. Francisca anchored news bulletins on radio and television on the joynews platform including the midday news on radio and JoynewsToday on TV. She also contributed to articles ("Frankly Francisca") on myjoyonline.com.

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Kakra while at Metro Tv hosted major news and current affairs shows "Good Afternoon Ghana", "Inside Pages" and "The Verdict" (centered on the 2020 election petition at the Supreme Court). She also managed the Metro newsroom as ag. news editor.

Ms Forson has since 2015 worked as an international freelance journalist for West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) in Dakar, VOAnews (radio & Tv) and TRT World (Turkey).

She branched into public relations working as a communications contractor for the Institute for Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER). Francisca also worked with the Chamber for Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD) as corporate affairs manager. She is a lead communications strategist with Platinum PR.

Francisca obtained her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Communications from the University of Ghana, Legon. She is also a past student of Holy Child School, CapeCoast. [1]

Career

She has worked with notable media organizations like Joy FM, BBC, VOA & Metro TV. [2]

In May 2017, she was named alongside Ameyaw Debrah, Manifest, Gary Al-Smith and MzVee as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF [3] ) influencers for Ghana's Equality Campaign, "Let's Be Fair [4] which threw light on the plight of about 3,600,000 million people lacking basic opportunities across the country.

Awards

Nominations

She was awarded the Best Road Safety reporter in 2012 by the Ghana Road Safety Commission and was also a nominee for the Ghana Journalist Awards in the same year. <ref>https://www.modernghana.com/news/422079/multimedia-receives-award-for-promoting-road-safety.html> <ref> https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2012/08/24/full-list-of-nominees-for-2012-gja-awards/

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References

  1. ↑ "I have a confident and sexy voice -Says Francisca Kakra Forson". Graphic Online. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  2. ↑ "Metro TV appoints Francisca Kakra Forson as News Editor". GhanaWeb. 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  3. ↑ "UNICEF". www.unicef.org. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  4. ↑ "UNICEF introduces 'Let's Be Fair, Ghana' campaign". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
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