President Barack Obama’s administration has endorsed Business Day Ghana and supported the media organization with a grant of $25,000 as seed capital to grow and expand the business to other parts of the world.
The grant, which is to be disbursed by United States African Development Foundation aims at putting resources in the hands of Africa’s ‘Best and Brightest’ young entrepreneurs so that they can be able to grow their companies.
Business Day, Ghana’s most influential and respected business newspaper was established in January 2014 to offer incisive coverage of the country’s finance and economy. Written by top award-winning journalists, Business Day is now a nationwide newspaper with an online presence to serve the international markets.
Business Day has created a niche in the media industry by offering unique products for mainly business leaders and policy makers (i.e. concise and informed articles). Articles in Business Day help readers to expand their knowledge on a subject matter to enable them see and take advantage of existing business opportunities.
The 48-page weekly business newspaper contains local news content, as well as contents from Financial Times (UK), Harvard Business Review, among other interesting international news.
“Being able to create a brand that is strong and a dominant player in the media industry within 19 months of operations is a big achievement,” the Editor-In-Chief of the Newspaper, Felix Dela Klutse, who is a 2015 Mandela Washington Fellow, has stated.
Apart from the grant, we shall also have technical supports and mentorship from the US Government as to how to grow the company to the international level.
“We want BusinessDay to be a global brand, starting from Ghana, and to be seen in years to come as a big giant coming from Africa,” Mr Klutse stated.
By Shiela Williams
