Ruona Meyer
rgameyer.bsky.social
Ruona Meyer
@rgameyer.bsky.social
Independent Media Trainer and DEI Consultant. Journalist with 21 years’ experience across West Africa and Europe. Final-year PhD Candidate researching Power Dynamics in Cross-border Collaborative Investigative Journalism
DOES JOURNALISM HAVE A SUSTAINABLE FUNDING—or BEGGING—MODEL?
The howling by mostly global minority intermediaries managing funds for global majority journalists is growing louder by the month.
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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April 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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January 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Moin, Luxembourg! Enroute to Brussels for a “High-level conference: Coding Equality into the AI Act – Equality Bodies rising up to the Challenge”.
It is organised by Equinet, the European Network of Equality Bodies.
Side-note: The event is invite-so feel free to DM; we could meet on the sidelines.
December 11, 2024 at 8:23 AM
#OCCRP
Pic 1 shows a colleague-based threat.
Pic2 is what being in, or controlling powerful silos also makes people tweet. Call it SEA: silo-enhancing audacity.🙂

Whether you know “these guys” or not, or agree with them or not?
It is absurd to focus on that, rather than issues arising.
December 7, 2024 at 2:32 AM
[PUBLICATION ALERT]
The Threat Within: Power Dynamics Impeding Cross-Border Journalism Practice--Perspectives from African Investigators.
‼️The accepted manuscript version is on my LinkedIn. The final version with accurate page numbers and supplemental tables: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…
December 5, 2024 at 8:21 AM
I'm turning practice-based reflections from a forthcoming paper into a series of workshops. One of the first sessions will be in exactly A WEEK! And so I look forward to the feedback on ways to improve.
November 29, 2024 at 7:43 PM