News Ghana is a Ghanaian independent
news portal
A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displayin ...
. Its one of the most visited website in
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
, with 200,000 average daily visits.
History
News Ghana formerly known as Spy Ghana started in 2010 as a news blog by Madam Mushura Don-Baare and became a News Portal in January 2013. Spy Ghana also made world headlines for the wrong reasons in 201
News Ghana is managed by Roger A. Agana, who is co-founder, former general manager and editor of Modernghana.com. The parent company of ''News Ghana'' is M'ideas Group with operations throughout Africa specializing in
news
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reporting,
public relations
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,
advertisement
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,
product review
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,
search engine optimization
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(SEO),
domain registration
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History
In 1993 the U.S. Department of Commerce, in conjunction with several public and private entities, created InterNIC to maintain a central databa ...
,
web hosting
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and designing.
Market share
According to statistics from web traffic analytics company
Alexa Internet
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, News Ghana has a market share of 53.3% from Ghana, 17.2% from India, 14.1% from Nigeria, 2.7% from USA, 1.3% from Germany.
See also
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Media of Ghana
The mass media in Ghana, includes television, radio, internet publishing and newspapers.
History
19th century
The media in the Gold Coast first emerged in the 19th century with the publication of ''The Gold Coast Gazette and Commercial Intelli ...
References
External links
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Ghanaian news websites
2012 establishments in Ghana
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