Arison T.
Yaounde, Cameroon
$200 - $500
51 reviews I am currently Central African correspondent for Chinese state media, Xinhua News Agency and West African editor for Daily Reporter. I also freelance for multiple international news media including The New Humanitarian (formerly United Nations News Agency) based in Switzerland, Turkish Radio Television (TRT World) in Turkey, One World Media in UK, China Global Television Network (CGTN), Voice of America (VOA), the Spore Magazine in Netherlands and Africa China Reporting Project in South Africa. Prior to joining Xinhua and Daily Reporter, I worked with Cameroon Equinoxe TV and Radio as Reporter, Anchor and News editor, Cameroon Journal as editor and MSME News Network in Malaysia as African correspondent.
With over 10 years experience practising journalism and covering everything under the sun, I have reported extensively in my country Cameroon and beyond on politics, health, sports, corruption, human rights, climate change, environment and business.
I have won 11 international prestigious awards for my investigative reporting. The awards include:
- 2017: Gold winner of United Nations Correspondents Association Awards (UNCA Awards 2017) in New York, U.S.A
- 2017: Winner of the Africa fact-checking awards (second consecutive year) in Johannesburg, South Africa
-2017: Finalist, Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Kurt Schork Memorial Awards 2017 in London, U.K
- 2016; Winner of the Africa fact-checking awards in Nairobi, Kenya
- 2015: Winner of the Grand Prize of the European Union Lorenzo Natali Media Awards in Brussels, Belgium
- 2015: Silver winner of the United Nations Correspondents Association Awards (UNCA Awards 2015) in New York, U.S.A
-2015: winner of CNN Multichoice Award in Nairobi, Kenya
-2014: winner of Accer Awards in Nairobi, Kenya
-2013: winner of European Union CTA Media Competition in Kigali, Rwanda
-2011: winner of the Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Awards (RFPA) Awards: Youth Category in Dakar, Senegal
I hold a BSc (Hons) in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Buea. I have also attended brief journalism training programmes in Belgium, China, Kenya and South Africa
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