Melissa Chemam
As seen in:
Apple Podcasts,
The Waterstones Podcast,
Medium,
MSN,
BBC,
The Independent (UK),
Yahoo Canada,
Yahoo News,
Yahoo News Australia,
Yahoo News Malaysia
and
Covers:
Foreign news, British politics, human rights, migrations, African-European relations, social change, art and music
Doesn't Cover:
sport
*Journalist: on the Global South, mostly Africa
@ RFI English (ex BBC, CBC, DW, Velvet Film, F24...)
*Writer: on cultural activism + African & diaspora arts
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Melissa Chemam’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Freelance journalist, reporter and writer, I studied comparative literature from 2000 to 2002 then political sciences. Drawn to travels in Europe and beyond, I have lived in Prague, Miami, Paris, London, Nairobi, Bangui in Central African Republic, and Bristol, travelling to most of Europe, Haiti, India, Mexico, and more than 14 African countries in the past 10 years - 40 countries in total. I’ve been a reporter for more than 12 years, and worked a lot in radio, also as a broadcaster and as a p…
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Interview
See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Writer, interviewer and reviewer at Transfuge Magazine
Have you ever used a typewriter?
A few times
How is social media changing news?
It's forcing speed