Ruona J. Meyer

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Ruona J. Meyer (1982), formerly called Ruona Agbroko and Ruona Agbroko-Meyer is a Nigerian investigative journalist. She was named Investigative Journalist of 2013 in Nigeria. [1] Her work has been featured on the BBC, 234Next, Financial Times, Reuters, Daily Trust , This Day , and others. She is the first Nigerian journalist to be nominated for an International Emmy Award. [2] [3] [4]

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Education and career

Meyer was born in Benin City, Nigeria in 1982, one of five children of Rachel and Godwin Agbroko. [5] [6] Godwin, a Nigerian journalist in Nigeria, was assassinated on December 22, 2006. [7] He had, before his death, won awards for his work, including the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award in 1997. [8]

Meyer completed a postgraduate degree from Wits University in South Africa, from where she finished with a distinction. [9] At the time, she also blogged for the journalism department. She had her undergraduate degree in microbiology from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is currently[ when? ] a PhD student at De Montfort University in Leicester (DMU). [10]

Meyer's first byline was for the This Day newspaper in Lagos on June 12, 2003. [11] From there, she has worked with journalists like Simon Kolawole, Paul Ibe, Ijeoma Nwogwugwu, Kadaria Ahmed, and Dele Olojede, who ran the now-defunct 234Next newspaper.

Major works and awards

In early August 2019, Meyer was announced as a nominee for the 47th International Emmy Awards 2019 for her work on Sweet, Sweet Codeine , a documentary on drug abuse in Nigeria, created for the BBC Africa Eye . It was Nigeria's first-ever nomination for the award. Meyer was nominated under the Current Affairs & News Award. [15]

Other awards include:

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References

  1. ↑ "Ruona Meyer's Biography | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  2. ↑ "2019 INTERNATIONAL EMMY® AWARDS NOMINEES FOR NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS ANNOUNCED – International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences" . Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  3. ↑ "Emmy's 2019: I still can't believe it - Ruona Meyer". Daily Trust. 2019-08-17. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  4. ↑ "'Sweet Sweet Codeine' documentary earns Nigerian journalist Emmy nomination". P.M. News. 2019-08-07. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  5. ↑ "Nigeria Gets First Ever Emmy Nod with 'Sweet, Sweet Codeine'". Business Post Nigeria. 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  6. ↑ "Conversation with Ruona J. Meyer – African Women in Media". 22 August 2018. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  7. ↑ UNESCOPRESS. "UNESCO - Director-General condemns murder of Nigerian journalist Godwin Agbroko". portal.unesco.org. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  8. ↑ "Godwin Agbroko". PEN America. 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  9. ↑ "The beauty of a mixed culture: An interview with Ruona Agbroko-Meyer – Explore Magazine" . Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  10. ↑ "Nigeria receives first ever international Emmy nomination for documentary by DMU PhD student". www.dmu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  11. ↑ "Conversation with Ruona J. Meyer – African Women in Media". 22 August 2018. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  12. ↑ Sweet sweet codeine: Nigeria's cough syrup crisis - BBC Africa Eye documentary , retrieved 2019-08-19
  13. ↑ "Shale gas stirs ecology fears in S.Africa's Karoo". Reuters. 2011-04-08. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  14. ↑ "Presenter: Ruona". BattaBox. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  15. ↑ "Nigeria receives first ever international Emmy nomination for documentary by DMU PhD student". www.dmu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
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