Sports Culture Network promises sports and culture “reported with standards”. Its publisher has just spent a week at university working on exactly that.
Isaac Nana Yaw Annor has graduated from the University of Media, Arts and Communication’s training programme for bloggers and digital content creators in Accra, Ghana. He received his certificate at the close of the five-day programme, held from 9 to 13 November at UniMAC’s South Legon campus.
A course built on accuracy
UniMAC describes the programme as the first of its kind. It brought together 100 online publishers selected through the New Media Association of Ghana, with every place funded by the university’s Chancellor, Ernest Ofori Sarpong.
Opening the course, Vice-Chancellor Prof. Eric Opoku-Mensah asked the participants for a “commitment to accuracy, privacy and ethical standards”. The rest of the week built on that theme of professional skills and responsible digital publishing.
What it means for SCN
Sports reporting moves fast. Scores, injuries, transfers and trades break in minutes, and rumours travel even faster. The habits stressed at UniMAC (check before you publish, be fair to the people you write about, correct mistakes openly) are the same ones that separate a reliable sports desk from a rumour mill.
Annor runs a network of titles across Ghana and beyond, including Nsemwokrom, AfroYard and The Gospel Post. The training now feeds into how all of them, Sports Culture Network included, check and present their stories.
UniMAC plans a follow-up Advanced Certificate in Multimedia Content Creation, Strategy and Blogging in early 2027.
Source: University of Media, Arts and Communication (UniMAC).
