Alice Aryeetey is a

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broadcast journalist and news reporter who currently works with

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. She won the Best TV News Reporter of the Year Award at the 2019

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awards.

Early life and education

She graduated with a BSc. in Communication Studies from

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Career

She began as a journalist and deputy news editor of

since 2016. She also leads a group of volunteers who help families with children living with disabilities. In 2021, she was selected for the 2021

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Awards and recognition

Aryeetey was the first journalist to be recognized and awarded by the Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations through their Disability Excellence awards scheme and she won the Best TV News Reporter and Best

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Reporter at the 2019 Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) awards. She was also nominated by the

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and the

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for the 2018 Young Journalist Award in the UK and was named the Most Promising Young Journalist of the year in Ghana by the

. In 2017, she won the Best Journalist in producing TV reports on Education. She also won the GJA award for Best Journalist in reporting on disability. Aryeetey received an award from GJA for reporting on Disability In 2021, she was selected for the 2021

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Personal life

Alice is married with a child.

References

Ghanaian women journalists Living people Ghanaian television journalists Year of birth missing (living people) Ghana Institute of Journalism alumni {{Ghana-bio-stub