Emmanuel Bright Quaicoe, an alumnus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (KNUST), has been named Ashanti Regional Journalist of the Year for 2025, with fellow alumni Clinton Yeboah and Nana Boakye Dankwah Yiadom also receiving honours across several reporting categories.

The recognition came at the 2026 Ashanti Media Excellence Awards, organised by the Ashanti Regional Branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to honour outstanding journalism produced in 2025.

In addition to the overall honour, Quaicoe won Best Feature Production and Best in Agriculture Journalism. He also placed second in Entertainment Journalism.

Yeboah took first place in both Health Journalism and Business and Economy Journalism.

Dankwah Yiadom won first place in Community Impact Journalism, placed second in Health Journalism and took third place in Environment, Science and Climate Journalism.

Quaicoe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from KNUST, while Yeboah and Dankwah Yiadom studied Media and Communication Studies at the university.

The three journalists work with the Multimedia Group’s Luv FM and JoyNews in Kumasi and were among 19 journalists shortlisted for the awards.

The awards covered 10 competitive categories, including education, agriculture, health, business and economy, entertainment and photojournalism. This year’s theme was “Celebrating Excellence, Championing Credibility: Journalism in the Age of AI.”