59 21st century journalists

Rosental Calmon Alves is a Brazilian journalist.

María Fernanda Ampuero is an Ecuadorian feminist writer and journalist.

Jennifer Baker is a European journalist based in Brussels specialising in EU policy and legislation in the technology sector. She has written for ArsTechnica, ComputerWeekly, Macworld, PC World and The Register. She has been senior presenter on ViEUws and also features as an EU policy and tech expert on BBC Radio as well as Euronews.

Dariusz Baliszewski was a Polish historian, journalist and writer. Author of television show "Rewizja nadzwyczajna", he was a common author of historical articles to one of the biggest Polish magazines, Wprost. He specialized in Polish 20th century history, and is known for several controversial hypotheses, like those related to the death of general Władysław Sikorski.

Carlton Lindsay Barrett, also known as Eseoghene, is a Jamaican-born poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist and photographer. Since 1966 he has lived in Nigeria, of which country he became a citizen in the mid-1980s.

Lauren Beukes is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter.

Ricardo Eugênio Boechat was an Argentine-born Brazilian news anchor. He worked for newspapers such as O Globo, O Dia, O Estado de São Paulo and Jornal do Brasil. Before his death, he was active as a news director and radio anchor at BandNews FM and held a position as television anchor at Jornal da Band. Boechat won three Esso Journalism Awards. He entertained a weekly column at news magazine IstoÉ, and in 2002 authored the book Copacabana Palace.

Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer. He was born in western Iran. He was held in the Australian-run Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea from 2013 until its closure in 2017. He remained on the island before being moved to Port Moresby along with the other detainees around September 2019. On 14 November 2019 he arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand on a one-month visa, to speak at a special event organised by WORD Christchurch on 29 November, as well as other speaking events. In December 2019, his one month visa to New Zealand expired. It has been confirmed that Boochani has not left New Zealand, and remained on an expired visa until being granted refugee status in July 2020. As of July 2020, Boochani is to become a Senior Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury.

Codou Bop is a Senegalese sociologist, journalist and women's rights activist who also engages against gender violence in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Miroslava Breach Velducea was a Mexican investigative journalist for La Jornada and Norte de Juárez in Chihuahua City, Mexico known for her reportage of human rights violations, drug trafficking, and government corruption. She was murdered on 23 March 2017 as she was leaving her home. She was one of six journalists killed in Mexico in 2017.

Lupe Cajías de la Vega is a Bolivian journalist, historian, and writer. Cajías has focused her career on journalism, though she is also the author of books such as Historia de una Leyenda, vida y palabra de Juan Lechín Oquendo (1988) and Valentina. Historia de una rebeldía. Likewise, her career has been recognized with the UNICEF national award in 1986, as well as the Erich Guttentag Award for the novel Valentina. Historia de una rebeldía in 1996.

José María Fernández Calleja was a Spanish journalist, political prisoner during the Francisco Franco era and anti-ETA activist.

Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese writer, blogger and anti-corruption activist, who reported on political events in Malta. In particular, she focused on investigative journalism, reporting on government corruption, nepotism, patronage, allegations of money laundering, links between Malta's online gambling industry and organized crime, Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme, and payments from the government of Azerbaijan. Caruana Galizia's national and international reputation was built on her regular reporting of misconduct by Maltese politicians and politically exposed persons.

Aleksandra Čvorović is a writer, journalist and librarian from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her works have been translated from Serbo-Croatian into several other languages.

Isioma Nkemdilim Nkiruka Daniel is a Nigerian journalist whose 2002 newspaper article comment involving the Islamic prophet Muhammad sparked the Miss World riots and caused a fatwa to be issued on her life. She ultimately had to flee the country because of Jihadis.

Komla Afeke Dumor was a Ghanaian journalist who worked for BBC World News and was the main presenter of its programme Focus on Africa.

Mariana Enríquez is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer.

Raed Fares was a Syrian journalist, activist and civil society leader from Kafr Nabl, Syria. He was the founder of Radio Fresh FM in 2013, an independent radio station reaching audiences in Idlib, Aleppo, and Hamah provinces.

Nasim Fekrat is an Afghan blogger and journalist who worked for various media outlets. He is a two-time winner of the freedom of expression awards; in 2005 from France Reporters Sans Frontieres (RWB) and in 2008 from ISF in Siena, Italy. He is the editor of the Afghan Lord blog as well as directing the Association of Afghan Blog Writers (AABW). Fekrat's work has appeared on BBC Persian, CNN, Foreign Policy Magazine, his own news sites, and publications run by both NATO and the United Nations. As the leader of a small movement of young journalists, he advocates for a free press in Afghanistan.

María José Fernández Vallés, better known as Pepa Fernández, is a Spanish journalist. She is the director and presenter of the Radio Nacional de España (RNE) program No es un día cualquiera.

Ximena Galarza Lora is a Bolivian journalist. Her program was able to uncover election fraud in the 2019 Presidential and General elections. She was chosen as an International Women of Courage in March 2020 by the US Secretary of State.

Mávila Milagros Huertas Centurión is a Peruvian journalist, writer, actress, and radio and television presenter.

Wojciech Jagielski is a Polish journalist and correspondent. He has won acclaim for his reports on journeys to the world's worst trouble spots. From 1991 to 2012, he worked for a leading Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, was a BBC correspondent, and occasional contributor to Le Monde. He reported mainly from conflict zones in the Transcaucasus, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Africa. His writing continues the tradition of reportage of Ryszard Kapuscinski, Jagielski's mentor and friend.

Jela Krečič Žižek is a Slovenian writer and journalist. She has published two books to date: None Like Her which has been translated into English by Istros Books, and The Book of Others which was published in 2018 and was nominated for the Kresnik Award.

Olivera Lakić is an investigative journalist for the Montenegrin newspaper Vijesti. In May 2018, she was wounded by a gunman after investigating corruption in Montenegro. She became an International Women of Courage Award recipient in 2019.

Serhiy Leshchenko is a Ukrainian journalist, politician and public figure, Member of Parliament. A member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction. From 2002 until 2014 Serhiy was working as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief and as a special correspondent for Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper.

Edmundo Dante Lévano La Rosa, also known as César Lévano was a Peruvian intellectual, journalist, writer, teacher and poet. He was director of the Peruvian newspaper Perfil, which became a weekly newspaper, and was also a retired professor at the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM).

Francisco de Asís Lobatón Sánchez de Medina, better known as Paco Lobatón, is a Spanish journalist.

Bogdan Logvynenko is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, TV presenter, literary critic, editor, public figure.

Victoria Marinova was a Bulgarian TV host and journalist. She was raped and murdered at age 30. Her death caused international outrage during a time of increased violence against investigative reporters.

Oleksiy Vitaliyovych Matsuka is a Ukrainian journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of Novosti Donbassa, a Donbass news website. In 2013, he launched Donetskaya Pravda, which focuses on investigating public officials. He has also reported on Donetsk for Hromadske.TV and for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Ukrainian Service.

Armin Medosch was an Austrian artist, curator, theorist and critic working in the fields of net.art, new media art and DiY networking.

Iuliia Mendel, Iuliia Volodymyrivna Mendel is the press secretary in the administration of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Fedwa Misk is a Moroccan journalist, feminist, and women's rights activist. She participated in the 2011 February 20 Movement and subsequently opened an online magazine with the aim of promoting discussion about women in Morocco. Misk's publication Qandisha featured several high-profile stories and was targeted by hackers twice. She has been working as a writer for the Le Courrier de l'Atlas newspaper.

Ionel Sorin Moisa is an independent Romanian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) during the 2014-2019 legislature. The Romanian press also floated his name as possible Prime Minister on several occasions.

Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh is an Israeli politician and journalist. She became the first Druze woman to anchor a Hebrew-language news program on Israeli television in 2017. In April 2019, she was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Blue and White alliance, making history as the first Druze woman to become a Member of the Knesset. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset as part of the Blue and White alliance in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections. She left Blue and White on 29 March 2020 and joined Yesh Atid.

Marie-Louise Mumbu, also called Bibish, is a Congolese journalist born on 15 September 1975.

Mustafa Masi Nayyem is an Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, MP, and public figure who took part in Euromaidan in Ukraine. Formerly, he was a reporter for the newspaper "Kommersant Ukraine", the TVi channel, and the Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda. He also participates in Ukrainian journalists' anti-censorship movement, "Stop the censorship!", and Hromadske.TV. In the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014, he was elected to the Ukrainian parliament on the list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. He has been described as a reformist parliamentarian. Nayyem did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah is a Ghanaian journalist, a Pan-Africanist and an editor of Al Ahram Weekly newspaper. He is the eldest son of the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, and his Egyptian wife Fathia Nkrumah.

Nanjala Nyabola is a writer, political analyst, and activist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Kyaw Soe Oo is a Myanmar Reuters journalist who, with fellow reporter Wa Lone, was arrested on 12 December 2017 in Myanmar because of their investigation into the Inn Din massacre. A police witness testified that their arrest was a case of entrapment. It is believed to have been intended to intimidate journalists.

Cristina Pardo Virto is a Spanish journalist and television presenter.

Débora Denise Pérez Volpin was an Argentine politician, journalist and television host. She was the host of the news program Todo Noticias since 1996 and the program Arriba Argentinos since its inception in 2005.

Magdaléna Platzová is a Czech writer.

Olena Yuriivna Prytula is a Ukrainian journalist, the former editor-in-chief, owner of the Ukrayinska Pravda, an influential online newspaper that focuses on news and political coverage in Ukraine.

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, is a British journalist and businessman. He is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books, including The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (1994), Genome (1999), The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010) and The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge (2015). He publishes a blog and has been a regular contributor to The Times newspaper.

Jose Manuel "Babe" del Gallego Romualdez is a Filipino journalist, publisher and business executive who is the current Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States. He previously served as Special Envoy of President Rodrigo Duterte to the United States.

Ani Samsonyan, is an Armenian politician and journalist, member of the National Assembly since was elected in 2018 election for Bright Armenia, assuming the office on 14 January 2019. She is the deputy chair of the Standing Committee on the Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs.

María Seoane is an Argentine economist, journalist, and writer who has ventured into film. She has won numerous awards and published eight books on political issues in Argentine history. She was the director of LRA Radio Nacional from 2009 until her resignation on 21 December 2015.

Anatoly Anatolyevich Shariy is a Ukrainian journalist, videoblogger and politician. Ukrainian media commonly refers to him as "pro-Russian" and "anti-Ukrainian", labels he denies and contests in courts.

Sheila Kawamara-Mishambi is a Ugandan journalist and executive director of the Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI) and former Legislator in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). She originally became known for covering the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 and is now known for her feminist activism and work on human rights and conflict resolution.

Hani Shukrallah was an Egyptian journalist and political analyst. He was editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram Weekly between 1991 and 2005 and later founder and until February 2011 editor-in-chief of Ahram Online, both part of the state-run Al-Ahram Foundation. He was also the Executive Director of the Heikal Foundation for Arab Journalism.

Sonja Ndahafa Smith is Namibian Investigative journalist. She has reported and investigated sensitive political stories including the Caprivi treason trial case.

Sandister Tei is a Ghanaian journalist and Wikimedian. She is a founding member of the Wikimedia Ghana User Group and is the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year.

Mònica Terribas i Sala is a Spanish journalist and professor at the University Pompeu Fabra. Between 2008 and 2012 she was director of Televisió de Catalunya and the following year, councillor delegated and publisher of the Ara newspaper. Since 2 September 2013 she has directed El matí de Catalunya Ràdio.

Oleksandr Vladyslavovych Tkachenko is a Ukrainian media manager, journalist, producer and the long-term CEO of 1+1 Media Group. Tkachenko took part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election with the party Servant of the People. Tkachenko is Ukraine's Minister of Culture and Information Policy since June 4, 2020.

Luize Valente, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of Portuguese and German origins, is a writer and documentary filmmaker, author of historical novels and awarded documentaries, and a journalist.

Wa Lone is a Reuters journalist and children's author who, with fellow reporter Kyaw Soe Oo, was arrested on 12 December 2017 in Myanmar because of their investigation into the Inn Din massacre. A police witness testified that their arrest was a case of entrapment. It is believed to have been intended to intimidate journalists.

Arbana Xharra is an Albanian investigative journalist from Kosovo. She has won numerous awards for her reporting and was a 2015 recipient of the International Women of Courage Award from the US State Department.