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Mr. Kennedy Jawoko Instructor, Journalist, Knight Journalism Fellow, Media Deveolpment Expert, Ryerson University, Journalists for Human Rights (Canada), Ageny for Independent Media (South Sudan)
Kennedy Jawoko is a freelance journalist and an instructor at Ryerson University in Canada. He began his journalism career in northern Uganda in 1998. As a young journalist, he invested his strength, resources and intellect in telling the stories of those who wage war, those who are destroyed by it and those who rise above it. He reported extensively on gross human rights violations in northern Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. |
In 2003 Mr. Jawoko immigrated to Canada, and in 2006, he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), working in different roles as Program Assistant, Associate Producer, Senior Writer, Documentary Producer and Reporter. He has produced news, current affairs and documentaries from Canada, India, Germany, Turkey, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan and Israel. Mr. Jawoko is also a Media Development Expert currently with Journalists for Human Rights — a Canadian media development NGO. He recently traveled to South Sudan where he set up a Network of Journalists to effectively report on food security in the fledgling state. Mr. Jawoko holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University and a Professional Development Certificate in International Humanitarian Law from the University of Ottawa. Kennedy Jawoko is one of twenty journalists around the world who have been awarded the 2013-2014 Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University. In 2010 he won the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Journalism Award to report on the fight against malaria in Uganda.