RUONA AGBROKO-MEYER

Journalist, trainer with work experience across print, wire service, online and financial news publications CAREER HISTORY
July 2012September 2012 Financial Times, London, UK
Intern on World Production, Markets, Books and Companies desks Independently unearthed researched then wrote stories for emerging markets blog Beyondbrics; wrote weekly round-up of forthcoming earnings results for Companies desk

Ruona Agbroko-Meyer Journalist t: +44 759 8469 278 e: ruona@agbrokomeyer.com w: agbroko-meyer.com

February 2012September 2012

Journalism trainer, making programmes tailor-made to the newsroom which resulted in four blocs of sessions Continued voluntary mentorship and support for willing journalists posttraining, mainly via email

Daily Trust Newspapers, Nigeria

March 2011-April 2011

Intern on the Commodities desk; reported and wrote-to-deadline human interest and news stories on South Africas mining, agriculture and financial sectors

Thomson Reuters, South Africa bureau

January 2010-December 2010

Blogged for journalism department websites and covered radio stories during the 2010 World Cup from Johannesburg Wrote a blog for Reuters during 2010 World Cup Wrote an opinion piece and worked as a researcher for the Mail & Guardian South Africa on tracking down apartheid-era employees for its 25th anniversary book project

Student blogger, Wits University

May 2009December 2009

Senior reporter working on environmental, social and political news for Nigerian independent daily Re-writing and proof-reading functions Covered trial of Nigerian terror suspect in South Africa online with live updates Reported on high profile money-laundering trial of former Nigerian public official in London until NEXT went out of print

Senior Reporter, NEXT Newspapers

December 2008April 2009

Freelance speechwriter/press officer in corporate communications department of Guaranty Trust Bank, Nigeria

June 2004-December 2008

Nigeria

Reporter/Columnist, Thisday Newspapers

EDUCATION
MA Broadcast journalism, Westminster University, London, UK BA Hons Journalism and media studies, Wits University, South Africa Bsc Microbiology, University of Lagos, Nigeria

AWARDS AND SKILLS

Winner, Thomson Reuters FitzGerald Prize For A Young African Journalist (January 2010) Best Student Journalist (Radio), Wits Journalism Dept. (November 2011) Winner, The Future Awards Nigerias Young Journalist for 2010 Proficient in: Adobe audition (audio editing), CMS and Excel

Referees available on request