David Tam-Baryoh

David Tam-Baryoh is Executive Director of the Center for Media, Education & Technology (CMET), the Freetown, Sierra Leone-based International League for Human Rights affiliate. "He is the former secretary-general of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, and publisher of Punch newspaper. Tam-Baryoh has worked as research and publications officer of the Ghana-based Media Foundation for West Africa, and served as the managing editor of the foundation's magazine, Zongo-Giwa. He also reports for the World Press Review. Tam-Baryoh studied social and political philosophy in Nigeria and read journalism at the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra in 1993. He is a member of several international press organizations, including the International Press Institute, Commonwealth Press Union, World Association of Newspapers, and UCIP." 


 * Winner of the 1999-2000 World Press Review Award