TUC boss edits Daily Graphic today

The Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Ghana, Dr Anthony Yaw Baah, takes his turn as the Guest Editor of the Daily Graphic newspaper today.

The Doctor of Economics and labour expert is the second high-profile personality to take the hot seat in the Guest Editor Series initiated as part of activities to mark the 70th anniversary of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), which publishes the Daily Graphic, five newspapers and two online news portals.

The newspapers are The Mirror, Graphic Sports, Graphic Showbiz, Junior Graphic and Graphic Business, as well as two online platforms, Graphic NewsPlus and Graphic Online.

Guest Editor Series

The initiative took off in May with the Managing Director of Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited and President of the Ghana Association of Bankers (GAB), Mr Alhassan Andani, as the first to appear as Guest Editor.

Many other high-profile personalities have also been pencilled as Guest Editors for the Platinum Jubilee celebration that climaxes in October, this year.

The monthly event will also see a former Ag. Editor of the Daily Graphic, Ms Elizabeth Ohene; the Quizmistress of the National Science and Mathematics Quiz (NSMQ), Dr Elsie Effah Kaufmann, and the Auditor-General, Mr Daniel Yaw Domelevo, take their turn as Guest Editors.

Role

As Guest Editor, the TUC Secretary-General will be expected to chair the morning and afternoon editorial conferences of the Editorial Board of the Daily Graphic to review the day’s edition of the paper and select stories and pictures that will feature in the Thursday, June 25 edition of the paper.

He will use the opportunity to share his views on topical national issues and his area of operation in a live social programme dubbed “Graphic Talks 360”.

Dr Baah said: “I am looking forward to learning more about my favourite newspaper, Daily Graphic, as a Guest Editor.”

Deepening relationship

The Editor of the Daily Graphic, Mr Kobby Asmah, said the Guest Editor Series was an opportunity to diversify and share knowledge with critical stakeholders of the paper.

He said the series was also meant to give key stakeholders a sneak peek into the working of the paper and an opportunity for them to “appreciate what goes into newspaper production, the challenges and the operations of the Daily Graphic.”

Profile of Yaw Baah

Dr Yaw Baah was employed by the TUC in 1993 as a researcher.

He later rose to become the Deputy Head of Research in 1997 and the Head of Research in 1998.

He was appointed the first Director of the Labour Research and Policy Institute of the TUC which was established in 2006.

In 2008, he was elected Deputy Secretary-General of the TUC and later Secretary-General in 2016.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom; an MSc in Financial Economics from the Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway; and a BA in Economics from the University of Ghana.

He has also studied in Tel Aviv, Israel; Turin, Italy and other places.

He is a former part-time lecturer in Labour Studies at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and a founder member of the African Labour Research Network (ALRN).