Prize-winning Guinean blogger Alimou Sow isn’t strictly a journalist. By day, the 32 year old works for an international organisation in Conakry. By night, he writes his blog immensely popular Ma Guinée plurielle (My diverse Guinea). With posts ranging from a reflection of city living to young men searching out traditional healers, his colorful and entertaining blog looks at the minutiae of everyday life in his country. We think this is akin to journalism which is why we have included Alimou in our Journalists@Work series. Earlier this year, Sow won Deutsche Welle’s The Bobs Users prize for best French-language blog.

DW Akademie’s Bob Barry caught up with Alimou Sow when he came to Germany for his prize last month.

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In this installment of our Journalists@Work series, we talked to Kem Sokunthy (Kunthy), a radio producer from Cambodia. In April 2013, Kunthy participated in the radio workshop “Inclusion of people with disabilities” held by DW Akademie and the Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia (WMC).

Kunthy studied literature, education science and political science at different universities in Phnom Penh. During her studies, she also gained journalistic skills at the Cambodian Ministry of Information.

These days, Kunthy works for WMC Radio FM 102, which produces educational programs designed for all sectors of Cambodian society, especially women in rural areas. In this blog post, she gives us some insight into her work as a journalist in Cambodia.

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” Ma Guinée plurielle “ : C’est le nom du blog d’Alimou Sow. Il vient de gagner le prix du public du meilleur bloggeur francophone des Bobs . Son blog s’adresse à un large publique : Dans sa ” Lettre à mon frigo “, les réflexions du jeune bloggeur guinéen décrivent avec une certaine intelligence la vie des habitants de Conakry, la capitale de Guinée . Mais Alimou aime aussi aborder dans son blog, des thèmes qui touchent directement le quotidien des jeunes de son pays. Des jeunes qui parfois recourent aux esprits malins comme les joueurs de cauris traditionnelles, susceptibles de les sortir de la précarité . Toutes ces histoires sont racontées avec un humour particulier, qu’Alimou mélange aux couleurs chaudes et variées de sa Guinée natale.

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Taufique Ahmed has been working at Channel i, Bangladesh’s leading private satellite TV channel, since 2003. Currently, Taufique is Manager of Program Development in the News & Current Affairs department at Channel i, which was launched in 1999. His tasks include responding to viewers’ questions, comments and/or complaints regarding news programming and scheduling. He also monitors and supervises social media in the Development Journalism department – and blogs regularly in Bengali and English.

 

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In this installment of Journalists@Work, we’ll introduce you to Ta Thi Ngoan, an editor with Quang Ninh Radio & Television (QTV) in Vietnam. She has worked for this station in the country’s northern Quang Ninh province for almost four years. QTV was DW Akademie’s partner in a three-year project called “Radio for the People” and during these three years, Ta Thi Ngoan took part in a number of our workshops.

Ta Thi Ngoan is now in charge of presenting a live radio program called “60 Minutes You and I”. It’s a call-in program for young listeners and runs every Sunday. She also produces some stories related to tourism, which is a key industry in Quang Ninh province, since it is home to Vietnam’s famous Ha Long Bay.

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In this installment of our Journalists@Work series, we talked to Ljubomir (Leo) Gatdula, a TV producer and reporter from the Philippines. Leo participated in two DW Akademie workshops in 2009, which both dealt with online journalism and web 2.0. The first one was held in Macau, the follow-up workshop took place in Bonn, Germany.

These days, Leo works for People’s Television, which is owned by the Philippine government. In this blog post, he gives us some insight into his work as a journalist in the Philippines.

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In the next of our Journalists@Work series, we meet Abubakari Yussif. He’s a reporter with Radio Justice in Tamale, a bustling trading town in the Northern Region, one of Ghana’s poorest areas. Yussif has been working as a journalist for the past four years at Radio Justice where he reports for the news and current affairs department. As an avid sports fan, he also writes the sports news and occasionally presents a sports program. He works in Dagbani, the main language spoken in northern Ghana, and also reads the news in Gonja, his local language. He also speaks English, Twi and Hausa.

DW Akademie’s Kate Hairsine spoke to Yussif about his work and how proud he is to have come so far despite his poor background.

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In the next of our Journalists@Work series we meet Malik Abass Daabu, Editor of Myjoyonline in Accra, Ghana. Myjoyonline is the website of radio station Joy-FM and is one of the most successful Ghanaian news websites in the country. The 33-year old has been working as an editor of myjoyonline for five years and is a graduate of the  Ghana Institut for Journalism. DW Akademie’s Christine Harjes spoke to Malik about his work and myjoyonline.

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In the first of our Journalists@Work series, we talked to Rajneesh Bhandari, a multimedia journalist in Kathmandu, Nepal. Rajneesh participated in DW Akademie’s television reporting training held in Kathmandu in 2009 in cooperation with the Television Journalist Association of Nepal (TVJ). Rajneesh, who works at Kantipur Television, gives us some insight into his everyday life as a journalist in Nepal.

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In this installment of our Journalists@Work series we meet Mabvuto Phiri, an editor at MUVI TV in Lusaka, Zambia. Mabvuto has been working at MUVI since it started broadcasting and was recently selected to take part in the DW Akademie program, East4South.

Deutsche Welle’s André Leslie spoke to him about everyday life as a journalist in Zambia and a recent court case concerning people who physically attacked him for reporting on a sensitive issue. 

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