Media Tribe

I’m speaking to CNN’s fearless Senior International Correspondent Nima Elbagir. We talk about Nima’s experience of being a person of colour in a very white industry, her powerful investigation into slave auctions in Libya, the time she was given a machete for protection in the DRC and the difficulties of returning to work after maternity leave.

Show Notes

Nima Elbagir is a Sudanese born journalist and an award-winning international television correspondent. Nima was named the 2020 Royal Television Society 'Television Journalist of the Year' and recently received the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in the Investigative category for her reporting on human rights abuses, with the jurors citing her "fearless reporting across Africa, from a modern-day slave market in Libya, to child labour in Congo, and a smuggler's network in Nigeria, documented rarely seen exploitation and corruption."

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What is Media Tribe?

Media Tribe is a show that tells the story behind the storyteller. It's an opportunity to step into the shoes of the most respected journalists, directors and media executives.

Each episode looks at the journalist's journey into the industry, the impact they’ve had along the way and some of their most crazy experiences working in the industry. The stories that never quite made it to air!

Shaunagh interviews some of the most respected journalists, Oscar-nominated filmmakers and executives from across the globe, including Channel 4’s Jon Snow, BBC’s Kate Adie, The New York Times' Pulitzer Prize winner Malachy Browne, CNN’s Nima Elbagir and Rana Ayyub of the Washington Post to name a few.