Kwadwo Asare-Barfour Acheampong, host of political talk show Ekosii Sen on Accra-based Asempa FM was ranked as having asked the worst question.

The research is a collaborative work between media and political analyst Dr Etse Sikanku and a journalist and academic Kwaku Botwe of the National Film and Television Institute.

It is the second in the series of research work which aims at systematically assessing the quality of questions posed by journalists in Ghana during presidential press conferences.

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The goal of the research is to contribute to media monitoring and development in the country.

Methodology used

The researchers used content analysis as the methodological approach. The research is a systematic and empirical investigation guided by the following criteria: relevance of questions, specificity of questions, and the quality of questions asked.

The categories were used to construct a coding guide which was used to analyse the data.

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The sample included all the research questions asked in the press conference and the unit of analysis was the individual questions posed by journalists.

The journalists were scored based on the following criteria – relevance of question, specificity of question, and quality/standard of question.

Below is how the media performed: