She said such relationship really mattered in the Embassy's quest to project their initiatives, development projects and other self help programmes of the American Government in Ghana and also foster closer partnership and collaboration.

Ms. Mattos said the Embassy has therefore made it a constant priority to make their public affairs section accessible to the Ghanaian media and all development partners for feedbacks and information sharing.

The Press Attaché said this when she paid a visit to the Western Regional Office of the Ghana News Agency to interact with Mrs Justina Paaga, the Regional Manager of the Agency.

She noted that by the visit, she would be able to gather first hand information on the challenges of the media, the successes and ways to forge ahead in the embassy's working relationship with the media.

The Press Attaché, who had worked extensively in southern Africa and south Asia among other countries, would be in Ghana for three years as the lead of communication at the Embassy.

Commenting on the media terrain in the country, she said the free atmosphere to communicate was laudable but however described the "yelling", "heckling" and harsh manner in which discussions were conducted on both radio and TV as something to be checked for positive change.

She narrated, “In the morning when I switched any of the media outlets it’s virtually the same issues without any diversity of ideas and subjects".

Mrs. Justina Paaga in welcoming her expressed the Agency's heartfelt gratitude for the Embassy's continual support and visit to the Agency from time to time to interact and share information on the state of the Ghanaian media.

Currently, some pressing issues facing the media landscape was the influx of all manners of characters parading as journalists and denting the beautiful image of the profession.

Mrs Paaga said sanitizing the media industry was critical in growing the country's democracy through quality discourse on radio, television and the newspapers.

The Regional Manager later exchanged memorabilia with the Press Attaché to strengthen the relations between the two entities.