News -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Observer gets new editor By Ebrima Jaw Manneh Jan 14, 2005, 10:30 Email this article Printer friendly page Momodou Sanyang Momodou Sanyang, associate consultant with Management Development Consultants International, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily Observer newspaper with effect from Tuesday, January 11. He replaces Ndey Tapha Sosseh. Sanyang attended Sukuta Primary School, Armitage High School and then St Augustine’s High School. He enrolled in the School of Public Health, where he graduated as a public health inspector and served at various health posts country wide. Mr Sanyang left for the former USSR in 1975 to pursue a masters degree in international relations at Kiev State University, Ukraine. He returned to the country in 1979, and taught Literature, English and Government at St Augustine’s Junior Secondary School before joining Action Aid-The Gambia in 1986. At Action Aid, Sanyang served in the Donor- Liaison Unit, Research Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, Development and Communication Unit In 1995 he resigned on health grounds but subsequently secured a job at the Village Savings and Credit Association, VISACA, as monitoring and evaluation officer. At the end of that contract, Sanyang went into consultancy until his new appointment at the Daily Observer. Asked to comment on his new job in relation to the impartiality of the Daily Observer’s editorial line, Sanyang said: “I know that the press should be independent, objective and neutral. These principles I want to uphold. I will not throw spanners in the wheel of press freedom. If the paper was being viewed as objective, I will work to consolidate and improve on that. This is my intention.” On whether he had any media experience the new Daily Observer editor said: “If you look at my work experience at Action Aid, the job of a development liaison officer is to prepare project proposals for funding. This entailed not only preparing project, but receiving progress report from various project managers for onwards transmission to donors. This entailed editing and verification of reports. “Additionally at Action Aid, we had a publication team that publishes a development newspaper called Yiriwa Kibaroo. I was an editor and secretary to this newspaper. I also received in-house-training in news writing and editing.” © Copyright 2003 by Observer Company Top of Page News Latest Headlines APRC on ‘reconciliation’ tour Observer gets new editor FJC fires at Halifa Paul commission to probe more officials Journalists return from training Ahmadis hold youth conference Livestock dealers call off strike 4 Foni detainees still in Mile II Sabally to launch book YOUNG OBSERVER CPA, Unicef launch handbook on child protection for NAMS _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤