Mr. Assan Sallah
Mr. Assan Sallah is a renowned Gambian journalist. He is a former News Editor and a former security affairs correspondent at the defunct Daily Observer Newspaper Company in The Gambia. Mr. Sallah is the Publisher and Proprietor of LamToro News (LTN) Online. He is based in Germany.
Before he traveled to Germany, he worked for almost 10 years as a newspaper journalist. He graduated from Armitage Senior Secondary School in 2003 and later joined the teaching field. He taught as a teacher at Karantaba Upper Basic School in the Central River Region of the Gambia in the 2003 - 2004 academic year and later decided to change profession and joined the journalism field.
In 2004, Mr. Sallah began his journalism career as a freelance reporter at the then government newspaper called The Gambia Daily newspaper (now Gambia Info).
Mr. Sallah later applied for a reporter job at the Gambia’s biggest newspaper, The Daily Observer in 2005 and got appointed. While working at The Daily Observer, Mr. Sallah did his media practice both in the newsroom and at the same time did his Advanced Diploma in Journalism at the Gambia Media Training Centre, sponsored by UNESCO (NATCOM). He was part of the second batch of this media training programme.
He had in-house media training at The Daily Observer from renowned media professionals who worked with him at the time. He proved his skills and abilities in journalism, especially in the area of investigation and report writing, in-depth reporting, court reporting, and interviewing techniques. He gained rapid promotion at The Daily Observer Newspaper and later became a senior reporter and a correspondent of the said newspaper at the State House. In April 2008, Mr. Sallah was promoted from senior reporter to the post of editor at The Daily Observer.
During this period, Mr. Sallah became very passionate and active in the media and possessed a great passion for the job. He was elected as the first public relations officer (PRO) of the Young Journalists Association of The Gambia (YJAG) in September 2007. He served as PRO of YJAG from 2007 to 2009. During the Association’s congress in September 2009, he was elected as President of the Young Journalists Association of The Gambia, a position he served from 2009 to 2011. Mr. Sallah was a member of the Gambia Press Union.
In 2009, Mr. Sallah travelled to Ghana where he did a short journalism course on Freedom and Responsibility in the Media at the International Institute of Journalism in Accra. He later returned to The Gambia upon completion of the course and in 2011, he travelled to the Republic of China on Taiwan in Taipei, where he did another short advanced journalism course and later returned that same year.
Mr Sallah was also Anchor of The Young Observer Column at the time. A column focusing on youth and children‘s matters in The Gambia. He later became a co-anchor of the Bantaba Column of the Daily Observer and in 2012, he became Anchor of The Recap column while serving as Editor.
Assan Sallah’s impressive intellect and prolific body of work motivated him to create a new medium LAMTORO NEWS, an independent news media reporting the news, current affairs, and unbiased editorials and commentaries from renowned essayists to inform and educate in the market place of ideas and operate in support of public debate, fostering discussion on topics of current or historical importance, and promoting up independent journalism reflecting a commitment to free expression and inquiry, a range and depth of intellect, and a willingness to pursue the truth without regard to personal or professional consequence.
Mr. Sallah speaks English, German, French and a lot of local languages spoken in The Gambia and beyond. Besides his journalism profession, Mr. Sallah is also a qualified and a certified Salesman in Germany. In 2023, he completed a three-year studies in Business and Marketing in Deutschland and has since been on a full-time employment.