Profiles

Edgar Astudillo is a veteran radio reporter originally from Montería and now resettled in Bogota.

Stefaans Brümmer is a managing partner of the M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism (amaBhungane), a non-profit initiative to enhance capacity for investigative journalism in the public interest. The centre is a founding member of the Right2Know Campaign.

Carlos Lauría, CPJ’s program director and senior program coordinator for the Americas, is a widely published journalist. A native of Buenos Aires, he has written extensively for Noticias, the leading Spanish-language newsmagazine. Follow him on Facebook @ CPJ en Español.

Ilya Krieger is a Moscow-based independent journalist and a former reporter for Novaya Gazeta.

Lauren Wolfe is the director of Women Under Siege, a project on sexualized violence and conflict at the Women’s Media Center. While CPJ’s senior editor, she wrote the CPJ report, “The Silencing Crime: Sexual Violence and Journalists.” Previously, she was a researcher on two New York Times books on the 9/11 attacks.

Thulani Ndlovu has an LLB in law from Wits University, Johannesburg, and a diploma in mass communication. He works as a media advocate and freelancer in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Jackie Bischof is a freelance writer based in Johannesburg, South Africa and writes on the South African media for journalism.co.za.

Carlos Lauría, CPJ’s program director and senior program coordinator for the Americas, is a widely published journalist. A native of Buenos Aires, he has written extensively for Noticias, the leading Spanish-language newsmagazine. Follow him on Facebook @ CPJ en Español.

Ramata Soré has been a journalist with L’Evénement, a bimonthly published in Ouagadougou, since 2001.

Richard Rooney is a former associate professor in journalism and mass communication at the University of Swaziland. He blogs at Swazi Media Commentary.