GhanaWeb
GhanaWeb
Type of site
General news and information
Available inEnglish
OwnerBellaart Investments B.V.
URLghanaweb.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJanuary 1, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-01-01)[1]
Current statusOnline

GhanaWeb, founded as GhanaHomePage, is a Ghananian portal, content curation and syndication website covering news, politics, business, sports, entertainment, opinions and general information about Ghana. It was launched by GhanaWeb B.V., a privately-owned Dutch company in 1999.[2] It also offers background information, classifieds, radio stations and a social network for Ghanaians and the Diaspora.[3][4]

GhanaWeb is owned by Bellaart Investments B.V.[5] It has evolved over the years to include video content (GhanaWeb TV)[6] and social media components as well as a mobile app (GhanaWeb Reporter).[7]

History

Ghanaweb.com began in 1992 by Akoto Francis as GhanaHomePage.[8] It was a print magazine serving the growing Ghanaian community in Amsterdam by collating news stories from Ghanaian newspapers.

In 1999, the website was renamed as GhanaWeb.[8][9] - a blog on the domain of the University of Uta in Finland - which was conceived in the early nineties by a Ghanaian lecturer working in Finland.[10] GhanaWeb.com/GhanaHomePage featured links to news, sports, announcements, chat rooms,[11] a Ghanaian dictionary and many other resources. News stories from Ghana were republished from different sources and mailing lists from magazines.

GhanaWeb has currently evolved from a news aggregator to a producer of original content. It also has a mobile app. In 2020, it won the first Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge[7] for its GhanaWeb Reporter project.

Initiatives

In February 2020, GhanaWeb was the only Ghanaian media company to receive funding from Google (Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation[7]) to enable the media company to thrive in a digital era and expand its projects.[12]

In July 2020, GhanaWeb partnered with Africa Consumer Pane, a cooperative effort between the digital publisher Africa Business Communities and market research firm MSI-ACI, to launch the Ghana Election Polls, conducted monthly to enable citizens express their opinions and projections of the 2020 elections.[13]

References

  1. ^ "GhanaWeb.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". whois.domaintools.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  2. ^ Online, Peace FM. "Sam Jonah Threatens Ghanaweb". www.peacefmonline.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Ghanaweb Hacked Down". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  4. ^ "About GhanaWeb". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  5. ^ "GhanaWeb". ghana.mom-gmr.org.
  6. ^ "GhanaWeb TV to go LIVE on December 7". www.ghanaweb.com. 2020-12-06. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  7. ^ a b c "Selected Projects". Google News Initiative. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  8. ^ a b http://ghana.mom-gmr.org/en/media/detail/outlet/ghanaweb
  9. ^ "Taking A Look At GhanaWeb - GhanaWeb Homepage". www.ictcatalogue.com. 2020-01-01. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  10. ^ "GhanaWeb". ghana.mom-rsf.org. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  11. ^ "Ghana Chat Rooms". www.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  12. ^ "GhanaWeb wins Google funding to help journalism thrive in the digital age". Africa Business Communities. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  13. ^ Atoklo, Dziedzom (2020-07-03). "Ghana Election Poll launched to help project December 2020 elections". Business Financial Times Online | Economy, World, Finances, IT, ICT, Business. Retrieved 2020-07-07.


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