Media Dvelopment

The Gold Coast Gazette and Commercial Intelligencer, and it was published by Sir Charles MacCarthy, governor of the British Gold Coast settlements, from 1822-25. It was located in cape Coast which was then the capital of Ghana.

The aim  of this Cape Coast newspaper was to provide information to European merchants and civil servants in the colony. The news paper was also aimed at promoting literacy and encouraging rural development.

The Accra Herald by Charles Bannerman was next in the mid-century after the colonial news paper.It was circulated to 300 subscribers and 2/3rds of them were Ghanaians.

In the 19th century, many others like Gold Coast Times, Western Echo, Gold Coast Assize, Gold Coast News, Gold Coast Aborigines, Gold Coast Chronicle, Gold Coast People, Gold Coast Independent, and Gold Coast Express, developed from The Accra Herald.

The Ashanti Pioneer was also founded in 199 by John and Nancy Tsiboe, remained defiant

In 1948, political activist Kwame Nkrumah started The Accra Evening News.

Ghanaian times is a government owned paper which was created in 1957 after Ghanaians gained their independence.

The Daily Graphic was established in 1950. This paper maintain a policy of political neutrality.

In the 1990s, J J Rawlings lifted the banned off these news papers ;The Independent, the Ghanaian Chronicle, The Free Press, and The Statesman and they gave voice to the angry opposition silenced in years of repression

Ghana currently ranks 26 out of 178 in the latest worldwide index while the 2011 rankings released by Freedom House

Radio was introduced into the Gold Coast in 1935. ZOY was the first radio station which transmitted BBC programs to some three hundred colonial residents and privileged native elites.
Now Ghana has over a 195 radio stations that has branches in most part of the country.

In 1954, Gold Coast Broadcasting System was established, later becoming Ghana Broadcast Corporation (GBC) after independence in 1957.http://www.pressreference.com/Fa-Gu/Ghana.html