Media AllAfrica Global Media Chief Content and Strategy Officer South Africa
Description of Work:
Tami Hultman is co-founder and chief editorial officer of AllAfrica Global Media/allAfrica.com and a director of the AllAfrica Foundation, where she helps extend AllAfrica's social software and content-delivery technology and is directing the launch of HealthAfrica.org to provide information and interactive services to address Africa's health needs. She has reported, edited, consulted and produced for a wide range of international media, including the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the Nation Group (Nairobi), the BBC, International Television News (UK), the Washington Post (U.S.) and Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris). She is a graduate of Duke University and holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina. A resident of North Carolina, she has lived in southern, eastern and western Africa and is based at AllAfrica's Washington DC office. She was co-founder of Africa News Service - predecessor to AllAfrica and host of the first African news website -, was a Freedom Forum Fellow at the University of North Carolina and founding Director of the Center for Africa and the Media at Duke University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Women's Media Foundation. Among the awards for her work, in 2001 she was co-recipient of a Special Recognition Media Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Africa America Institute in New York.

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