Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Malawi Chapter chairperson Golden Matonga has made it into the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ (ICIJ) Network Committee influenced by his international news reporting.
Matonga, the only African journalist in the nine-member global investigative journalists team, is part of a new slate of ICIJ leaders set to guide membership standards and strengthen collaboration across the consortium’s global reporting community.
In an interview yesterday, the former Nation Publications Limited journalist said he was “truly honoured and humbled” to be elected to the leadership of the global consortium.
He said the network committee was responsible for supervising ICIJ’s global community of journalists, maintaining standards and ensuring the success of its mammoth cross-border investigations.
The statement issued by ICIJ on Monday said the consortium will be chaired by Édouard Perrin from France with Hala Nasreddine of Beirut and Yasuomi Sawa from Japan as co-chairs.
ICIJ is a non-profit newsroom best known for the Pulitzer-winning Panama Papers, which reshaped the global conversation on financial secrecy and triggered reforms and recoveries around the world.
