Career stories of the Been-There-Done-That Crew
Christabel Ligami, one of the award winners at the awim19 conference shares snippets of her career journey while talking about the place of data and policy in journalism. Please tell us about yourself My name is Christabel Ligami, a Kenyan freelance journalist. I am a multi-award-winning journalist both internationally and regionally. I have a master’s…
Mary Mwendwa, a Journalist with a background in science tells us why she pitched her award-winning story at the AWIM19 pitch zone and tells us why she tells stories from a place of depth and passion. Please tell us about yourself I am a freelance journalist and editor for an online publication called…www.talkafrica.co.ke ( Talkafrica)…
Zahara Tunda, one of the award winners at the just concluded African Women in Media Conference lets us into her world as she talks about her background, professional journey and drive for data journalism in this interview. Kindly tell us about yourself My name is Zahara Tunda and I was born in 1994, in…
Hodan Nalayeh was the founder of Integration TV, a platform she set up so that she can change the narrative of Somalia in the news. She was killed in an Al-Shabaab bombing today, alongside her husband, and leaves behind two children. I was fortunate to interview Hodan in March for our podcast Her Media Diary….
Can you share with us a bit about your journey? I’m a writer and journalist based in Nairobi and with eight years of newsroom experience. My journalism career began in 2010 when I joined The East African newspaper, where I reported on politics, security, business, culture and the arts. In 2014, I joined the Mail…
Can you share with us a bit about your journey? I am a filmmaker from The Central African Republic and the CEO of my company named Illustro Productions. After I graduated from university in Paris, I went back to my country and realized that many things had to be done within the audio-visual sector. Alongside a…
Becoming a grantee of the 2017/18 International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) Howard Buffet Fund for Women Journalists, was a rare opportunity for me which has boosted my career. I am passionate about reporting issues relating to women development in my community, and the grant gave me the opportunity to reach more women in their localities and……...
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Tell us about yourself My name is Ruona J.Meyer. I am a Multi-media Journalist with 15 years’ experience in print, radio, wire agency and digital outlets across Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK. I have worked as a reporter, writer, editor, researcher, presenter, and producer. I have covered financial markets, business stories, development issues and…
Chika Oduah is an award-winning multimedia journalist, poet, writer and photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Voice of America, Al-Jazeera, CNN, The Atlantic, National Geographic magazine, Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, among other media outlets. As a broadcast reporter and commentator on current affairs in Africa, she has appeared on-air for…
Funke-Treasure Durodola is a broadcast journalist, certified media trainer, speech and leadership coach. She is the first female journalist to manage an all-news radio station in the Radio Nigeria Network and indeed the Nigerian broadcast industry. She has spent more than two decades as a broadcaster; presenting and producing programmes; and anchoring news She is…
Tell us about yourself My name is Sumeya Gasa. I am a 25-year-old award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and researcher based in Johannesburg. After graduating from the University of Witwatersrand, I went on to work as a multimedia journalist, first, with News24 and later joining Chronicle – the multimedia partner to the Daily Maverick. During my…
