Convergence Between New Media and Traditional Media: A Case of Graphic Communications Group Limited

Abstract

Graphic Communications Group is a mono-print state-owned newspaper media house in the country. It has six titles namely, The Daily Graphic, The Mirror, The Graphic Sports, Junior Graphic, Graphic Business and The Graphic Showbiz. Its various brands are market leaders in their own segments of the newspaper market. Since its establishment in 1952, the company has metamorphosed from the government controlled into a state-owned newspaper delivering profits and paying dividends (Graphic Communications paid GHc500, 000 as dividend for the 2013 operational year) to the governments. Indeed it is the only state owned media organisation among the four state owned media organisations (Ghanaian Times, Ghana News Agency, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and Graphic Communications Group) that has consistently paid dividend to government since the return to constitutional governance in 1992.