KUNLE FALAYI


Portfolio Resume

Experience

British Broadcasting Corporation, W.Africa Bureau, Lagos, Nigeria

Business Reporter/Producer | March 2018 - present
Reporting and producing TV, audio and written stories about entrepreneurship, personal finance and tech trends from Anglophone West Africa.

Punch Newspapers, Nigeria

Correspondent, Features | March 2011 - March 2018
Reporting crime and writing features about Nigeria's justice and prison system, education, health and the environment.

Uniq FM, Osun, Nigeria

News Producer/Presenter | Sep. 2010 - Feb. 2011
Presenting news bulletins and running daily on-air shifts as continuity announcer.

Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria

News Editor | Feb. 2009-Sep. 2010
Editing national news bulletins daily and coordinating field reporters.

Education

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York

Master of Science, Data Journalism | 2022

University of Lagos, Nigeria

Master of Industrial and Labour Relations | 2016

University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

Bachelor of Arts, English and Literary Studies | 2008


Awards

Diamond Award for Media Excellence | 2018

Zimeo Awards, Africa Media Initiative, Addis Ababa | 2017

Journalist of the Year, Quill Awards | 2014

Education Reporter of the Year, Quill Awards | 2014

Best Report on Children, Quill Awards | 2014

Honoree, Wole Soyinka Awards for Investigative Reporting | 2014