Akinbobola: award-winning journalist, academic, media entrepreneur

Akinbobola

Award-winning journalist, academic, and media entrepreneur is the organiser of the African Women in the Media 2018 Conference scheduled to hold June 21 and 22 in Ibadan, Oyo State.

She holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Birmingham City University where she is the Course Director for MA Global Media Management, and her research interest is in digital journalism and African feminism.

A Nigerian living in UK, her work is Africa focused, covering stories from rape culture in Nigeria, to an investigative and data story on the trafficking of young West African football hopefuls by fake agents. The latter won the CNN African Journalist Award 2016 (Sports Reporting).

Among the media projects she has founded is Stringers Africa, which connects freelance journalists in African countries with newsrooms worldwide, and runs the African Women in the Media group.

She is also the founder of IQ4News, a multimedia production company, freelanced for publications including the UN Africa Renewal magazine and has several years’ experience in communication management for charities.

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