William Yaw Owusu

William Yaw Owusu has spent all his career as a print journalist, starting out as a court correspondent for the Ghanaian Times, a state-owned daily newspaper in 2002.

Whilst at the Times, Mr. Owusu also specialized as political, business/finance and environmental reporter apart from the court reporting.

He joined Daily Guide, Ghana's widely read and successful private newspaper in March 2010 as Senior Reporter. He is currently in charge of the coverage of high profile trials in the law courts.

Mr. Owusu worked in the fields of human rights, social justice and political activism and aspires to move it further in an effort to ensure robust independent and free media in the West African sub-region.

He was appointed Editor-in-Charge of Business Guide, one of the newspapers of Western Publications Limited, publishers of Daily Guide in October 2011.

Mr. Owusu is a member of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and holds a BA in Communication Studies (Journalism Major) from the Ghana Institute of Journalism as well as a Diploma in Communication Studies from the same institute. He is also a press fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge (2008).

He runs a general news blog at: www.yawowusu.blogspot.com