AFPC-USA Speaks with 2024 Scholarship Awardee Nneka Chile from Nigeria

Nneka Chile is a West African (Nigeria) multimedia journalist and content strategist with experience working on global teams. One of her notable achievements was being a part of Twitter's 2022 inception team that launched operations in Sub-Saharan Africa and defined content strategy for the region. She also served as the deputy lead for a Reuters Multimedia desk in West Africa covering breaking news and elections. Nneka is passionate about the intersection of news, product and technology. She is completing her studies at New York University in a course focusing on digital innovation, audience and news products. She currently works as a research assistant on an artificial intelligence testing project for the media. Her goal is to assist organizations in building solutions that contribute to media sustainability.

AFPC-USA will award Nneka with a scholarship at this year's Foreign Press Awards, which will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on December 4. This interview was conducted by Alan Herrera, who oversees AFPC-USA's editorial operations.