Meet the African journalists we are training at Alibi Investigations
Do you want to produce an investigative podcast series? These three journalists are doing just that.
At Alibi Investigations we invite working journalists from all across the African continent to apply for free training and mentorship in investigative podcast creation. If they have a story that they want to turn into an investigative podcast series then we have the tools and manpower to help them reach that goal.
We are building a community of African journalists of all experience levels and helping them to the extent that they demand. This can mean involvement with a full end-to-end podcast production or it can mean a few sessions and some well placed advice for someone still experimenting. We are encouraging the journalists to meet and interact with each other and so bringing together freelancers and newsrooms from over a dozen African countries all in the pursuit of better investigative podcasts.
All our services are offered for free.
We currently have over 100 African journalists in our training community, but we thought we’d highlight three of them to give you an idea of the great people we’re working with.
Adesuwa Tsan is from Nigeria. She has over 10 years experience in parliamentary reporting and was the Politics Editor for the Leadership newspaper.
She has worked at Order Paper, an online newspaper which specialises in “…bridging the gap between people and parliament” and is now settled at 365 Daily.
We are happy to have her in the Alibi community. We are working on a very exciting investigative podcast series together.
Opoka p'Arop Otto is a South Sudanese journalist who fled the country in July 2014 following an escalation in threats and intimidation towards him. The danger primarily came from individuals within the security services in Juba. He asked for asylum and has since settled with his wife and two children in The Netherlands.
He continues to find ways to work as a journalist thorough his passion for data journalism and narrative storytelling techniques.
He is currently participating in the Journalistic Voices Diversified media mentorship program by the Evens Foundation, a program in collaboration with Are We Europe and Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek.
Opoka is part of a capacity building mentorship program designed for exiled human rights defenders. The training focuses on empowering people on resilience, advocacy and integrated security. Opoka continues to be a focal point for human rights defenders, especially journalists from South Sudan who are at risk because of their work. Read more about his struggle in the UK Guardian.
We are building a podcast series with him that is going to be very special.
Gbemisola Esho from Nigeria is a data journalist and a member of Wanadata, a group of Pan African female journalists, data scientists and technologists.
She is a fact checker and journalist in mobile and digital journalism. She works mostly in English, understands basic French and is presently learning German.
On an average day she is trying to curb the spread of fake news, sharing information and writing data driven stories. “I believe in digital transformation and I support journalism with new media, tools and technology,” she says.
We are working with all three of these journalists to produce investigative podcast series.
If you are a working African journalist you can become part of the Alibi Investigations community by signing up to our Google Group. This way you can receive free training and mentorship.
