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Paydesk has 44 journalists in Dakar. Our journalists can do broadcast reports, as well as printed media and photography.
Our top journalists in Dakar are Ricci Shryock and Jallow Alpha.
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Journalists in Dakar
Ricci Shryock
Top Rated
Ricci Shryock is a photographer and visual journalist based in Dakar, Senegal portfolio: ****
English
French
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+3
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+5
Jobs Completed 49
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a few weeks
Jallow Alpha
Top Rated
Jallow Alpha is a freelance a journalist based in Dakar, Senegal;having worked for the BBC African Service;West Africa Democracy Radio and Radio France International.He is also a regular contributer to several Online News papers such as the Tuck Magazine News Paper and APA News.
English
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Vox Pop
News Gathering
+4
Current Affairs
Cultural
Breaking News
+2
Jobs Completed 73
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Seldom
John Wendle
Top Rated
John Wendle is an freelance writer, photographer, videographer, video editor, and producer based in Dakar, Senegal. Reporting on human and environmental conflict, science, and conservation, John creates multimedia packages as well as text features, photo essays, and videos from some of the world'...
English
French
Russian
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+15
Politics
Current Affairs
Technology
+15
Jobs Completed 2
Usually Responds Seldom
Wahany Makhan Johnson Sambou
Based in Dakar, Wahany Johnson Sambou is a graduate of the Center for Studies in Information Science (CESTI) at Cheikh Anta Diop University, with a Master's degree in Information and Communication Science from Cesti (High Honors). The one who was to be a footballer in another life began his ...
English
French
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Journalism
Live Reporting
+1
Business
Technology
Science & Environment
+10
Jobs Completed 209
Job Success Rate 99%
Usually Responds Within a few days
Allison Fernandes
I am a French journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. I was graduated from the school of journalism from Lille (ESJ Lille) in 2008, and for ten years, I have worked in Morocco, for the channel Medi 1 TV, as a news presenter first and later, I realized reports of 26 and 52 minutes for the program Medi ...
French
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+5
Politics
Current Affairs
Arts & Books
+9
Jobs Completed 138
Job Success Rate 96%
Sanoussy Sane
Je m'appelle Sanoussy SANE je suis réalisateur TV, cameraman, monteur vidéo et formateur audiovisuel basé à Dakar, Sénégal. J’évolue dans le milieu professionnel depuis plus de 10 ans, et à l'aise avec les logiciels de montages vidéos comme Adobe Première, et Final Cut Pro.
French
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
Documentaries
+6
Politics
Technology
Science & Environment
+11
Usually Responds Within an hour
Seydou Nourou Ba
Seydou Nourou Ba is a journalist based in Dakar, Senegal.He is the head of the international service of radio Rfm . He holds a degree in information and communication from the University of King Hassan 2 in Casablanca. He is in his seventeenth year of experience and has an innumerable number of ...
Arabic
French
Fula
+2
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Media Training
Jobs Completed 16
Job Success Rate 100%
Mady Camara
I am a freelance journalist based in Dakar, Senegal, from where I cover the West and Central Africa region where I have an extensive knowledge and good contacts. I have a good sense of story and am particularly interested in migration issues, climate change and conflict in the Sahel. I transcribe ...
Bambara
English
French
+3
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
News Gathering
Content Writing
+5
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+7
Usually Responds Within an hour
Annika Hammerschlag
Annika Hammerschlag is a French and English speaking freelance photojournalist, videographer and reporter who’s covered West Africa from Dakar, Senegal since 2019. She works primarily as a West Africa radio and video stringer for VOA and as a videographer for Al Jazeera English. Her work has also ...
English
French
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+10
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+9
Jobs Completed 5
Usually Responds Within a few days
Nama Dit Ousmane Diarra
Nama dit Ousmane DIARRA is a journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. I'm versatile. I have been working in this information profession since 2009 after my training in Dakar, Senegal. I worked in several information structures and in other countries in Africa. Through this job, I meet a lot of senior ...
Bambara
French
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+11
Business
Finance
Politics
+22
Jobs Completed 409
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a few weeks
Marta Moreiras
I am a documentary photographer, videographer and journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. I write for Spanish media and I shoot photographs and video-documentaries for international media, NGO's and UN Agencies such as UN FAO, OIM or ONUDC. I am especially focused on gender, education, culture, health ...
English
French
Galician
+2
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+13
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+11
Usually Responds Within a few hours
Al Bachir Yaya Bodiang
I am Al Bachir Bodian, freelance cameraman and producer based in Dakar. With an experience of more than 10 years in field reporting. I have done a lot of reporting throughout Africa with various partners. I speak French and English. I respect with a requirement the terms of reference of the ...
English
French
Wolof
Vox Pop
Feature Stories
Photography
+4
Business
Finance
Politics
+24
Jobs Completed 2
Usually Responds Within an hour
Sam Bradpiece
Sam Bradpiece is a multilingual journalist based in Dakar Senegal. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for France 24 and field producer for CNN. He has written features and investigations for publications including NPR, The Washington Post, The Times and others. He also shoots photos ...
English
French
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+13
Politics
Current Affairs
Technology
+15
Jobs Completed 4
Seydina Mouhamed Ababacar Gueye
Seydina Mouhamed Ababacar GUEYE is a journalist reporter based in Dakar, Senegal. I work for the french service of Voice Of America as correspondant In Senegal. I also work in local media as Senior reporter, head of sports services and digital coordinator
French
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+19
Business
Finance
Politics
+25
Jobs Completed 235
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a week
Amedine Sy
Amedine Sy is a journalist based in Dakar, Senegal.
Jobs Completed 112
Job Success Rate 100%
Moussa Thioune
Moussa Thioune is a cameraman and editor based in Dakar, Senegal. He is very serious and professional. He has already worked with local and international media on various types of subjects.
French
360 Videography
Politics
Current Affairs
Technology
+11
Jobs Completed 5
Andrei Popoviciu
Andrei Popoviciu is an independent investigative journalist, reporter, audio-visual producer and photographer covering human rights, security, migration, international development and foreign affairs stories across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently based in Dakar, Senegal but has ...
English
French
Romanian
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+17
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+14
Ruth Maclean
I am the Guardian's West Africa correspondent, based in Dakar. Previously I was The Times's correspondent in South Africa and Mexico. I can make audio and video for broadcast or the web to a very high standard. I also shoot my own photographs. I have an extensive knowledge of the region and good ...
English
Spanish
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+14
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 5
Usually Responds Within a day
Ndiaya Diop
NDIAYA DIOP is a journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONNELLE - Formateur au CESTI (Centre d’Etudes des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information) de l’université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (de 2011 à nos jours) -Formateur à l’ISEG (Institut Supérieur d’Entrepreneurship et ...
French
Journalism
Media Training
Jobs Completed 5
Benjamin Tetteh
Benjamin Tetteh is a multimedia journalist based in Dakar, Senegal and covering West and Central Africa.
English
French
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+10
Fact Checking
Usually Responds Within a day
Benoit Almeras
I am a radio journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. After a career as a PR officer with various humanitarian organizations (most notably in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Jordan), I switched to radio journalism in 2018. I graduated from my journalism school in Grenoble, France in 2020. That ...
English
French
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+8
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+7
Jobs Completed 2
Sira Thierij
Sira is an independent journalist based in Dakar, Senegal, covering West Africa and beyond for anglophone and German media. She has over five years’ experience working for international news organisations across two dozen countries, including in hostile environments. Sira shoots and edits video, ...
Dutch
English
French
+1
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+15
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+14
Donan Audace J.R. Ahouangnimon
Donan Audace J.R. AHOUANGNIMON est un journaliste reporter d’Images résident à Dakar. Il est actuellement pigiste à RT et couvre au quotidien l’actualité politique et économique mais il est aussi passionnée de culture.
French
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Social
Sofia Christensen
I am a freelance journalist based in Dakar, Senegal, from where I cover the West-Africa region. I have a good sense of story and am particularly interested in migration issues. I write and make audio for broadcast or the web in English, French and Italian. I also shoot my own pictures and work with ...
English
French
Italian
+1
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+8
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+5
Jobs Completed 62
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a few days
Jennifer Lazuta
Jennifer Lazuta is a freelance journalist based in Dakar, Senegal.
English
French
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Vox Pop
Feature Stories
+6
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 5
Usually Responds Within a day
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