Tamela J. Hultman

Tamela Hultman, chief strategy and content officer and director of AllAfrica, "also a founder of Africa News Service, has been its chief editorial officer and fundraiser. Among her business development projects for Africa News, she conceived and edited an African cookbook, published by Viking Penguin, which sold over 100,000 copies, and developed a corporate-sponsored series on Africa for National Public Radio (U.S.) - that network's largest institutional collaboration to date - for which she also served as Executive Producer. She also has reported, edited, consulted and produced for a broad range of international media, including: the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, International Television News (UK), NBC Television (U.S.), the Washington Post and Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris). In addition, she was a Freedom forum Fellow at the University of North Carolina and the founding Director of the Center for Africa and the Media at Duke University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her MA is in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures and her PhD is in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of North Carolina."