Graham Holliday's Profile
Digital Media Editor, Frontline Club
Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda
- My Expertise & Interests: World, War reporting, foreign correspondent, international reporting, Rwanda, Africa, development, human rights, Journalism, Media, media training
- My Sites: Kigali Wire
Bio
Graham Holliday is a journalist based in Kigali, Rwanda. He has seven years' media training experience and is a full-time freelance media consultant, trainer, journalist and blogger.
He has worked using social media since 2002. He has twice been a finalist in the Bloggies and numerous other blog awards for noodlepie, the blog he wrote when he lived and worked in Saigon, Vietnam for four years. His work for the Frontline Club blogs helped earn it a Media Guardian Innovation Award for Vaughan Smith's multimedia blog from the frontline of the war in Helmand province in Afghanistan.
He previously worked as an editor at Scoopt, the world's first citizen journalism photo agency. He runs monthly blogging workshops and has trained journalists and editors at the BBC News, BBC Worldwide, Nokia, MSN, Médecins Sans Frontières among many other companies and NGOs.
He has blogged for the Guardian on their Comment is free blog, The Observer Food Monthly blog, BBC GoodFood and the Frontline Club where he worked as the Digital media editor until August 2009 building a network of foreign correspondent blogs.
He is currently building the Kigali Wire blog as part of a social media experiment from the Rwandan capital. He continues to travel to Europe, the Middle East, Asia and other parts of Africa to train journalists and media workers.
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He has worked using social media since 2002. He has twice been a finalist in the Bloggies and numerous other blog awards for noodlepie, the blog he wrote when he lived and worked in Saigon, Vietnam for four years. His work for the Frontline Club blogs helped earn it a Media Guardian Innovation Award for Vaughan Smith's multimedia blog from the frontline of the war in Helmand province in Afghanistan.
He previously worked as an editor at Scoopt, the world's first citizen journalism photo agency. He runs monthly blogging workshops and has trained journalists and editors at the BBC News, BBC Worldwide, Nokia, MSN, Médecins Sans Frontières among many other companies and NGOs.
He has blogged for the Guardian on their Comment is free blog, The Observer Food Monthly blog, BBC GoodFood and the Frontline Club where he worked as the Digital media editor until August 2009 building a network of foreign correspondent blogs.
He is currently building the Kigali Wire blog as part of a social media experiment from the Rwandan capital. He continues to travel to Europe, the Middle East, Asia and other parts of Africa to train journalists and media workers.
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| Kigali Wire | Kigali Wire is a news blog from Kigali, Rwanda. It is also part of wider social media experiment in "hyperdistributed" online publishing. |