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Sixty years of broadcasting is definitely worth commemorating, and certainly, Badou Lowe and his colonial-era colleagues deserve to be fittingly celebrated for being the pioneers of public broadcasting in our comparatively young nation. However, 60 years of Radio Gambia is more than the focus on the genesis. Indeed, a lot […]
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) shone the spotlight on media under fire at a webinar on May 16 which heard from journalists from Ukraine and Yemen and the legal team supporting the IFJ’s complaint to the International Criminal Court over Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian media workers. The event, chaired […]
Reviewed by Foday Samateh. “Six armed men wearing masks came to the printing works at 2:00 a.m., fired shots into the air, and ordered the employees to lie on the ground. One of them then set fire to the new press…completely destroying it.” The police didn’t investigate the crime much […]
The Publisher and Proprietor of LamToro News (LTN), Mr. Assan Sallah is a renowned Gambian journalist. He is a former News Editor and a security affairs correspondent at the defunct Daily Observer Newspaper Company in The Gambia. Mr. Sallah is currently serving as the Managing Editor of his LAMTORO NEWS […]