Yaounde: Ngala Killian Chimtom is new Africa correspondent for Crux Magazine

21/08/2017

The authoritative Crux international news magazine specialize in the coverage of Roman Catholic affairs has appointed Ngala Killian Chimtom as its new Africa correspondent, based in Cameroon covering the whole continent, bringing stories of the world’s most rapidly growing Catholic community.

Chimtom is a Cameroonian journalist with fourteen years of professional experience. He currently serves as a reporter and news anchor for Cameroon Radio Television, and contributes regularly to a number of other outlets, including IPS, Ooskanews, the Christian Science Monitor, CAJNews Africa, CNN.com, and DPA.

Ngala Killian Chimtom.

In 2012, Chimtom won the Wash Media Award in the radio category, and in 2013 he won the Investigative Journalism Award, again in the radio category, which is bestowed by the British Council, the U.S. Embassy to Cameroon and the Cameroon Association of Commonwealth Journalists. He holds an undergraduate degree in communications from the University of Yaounde.

Although based in Cameroon, Chimtom’s reach extends across the entire African continent. He’s already done superb reporting for Crux on Chad, the Central African Republic, Congo, and other parts of Africa, and seems to have a near-infallible instinct for when interesting Catholic news is bubbling someplace.

The editorial chair of Crux in a statement observed that “Neglect of Africa in the Western media is, alas, the stuff of legend, and we’ve been as guilty of it as anyone. With Chimtom on board, we’ve taken a huge step towards plugging that hole. Personally, I’ll add that when Crux set out on its own, by dint of circumstance I was compelled to take on a number of administrative responsibilities I’d never sought or wanted, including managing personnel. Going in, I assumed I’d experience that as a necessary headache, not a delight – the price I had to pay, in other words, to keep doing my own journalistic thing.

Given the chance to work with such talented and passionate people as White and Chimtom, however, as well as the rest of our team, it turns out that my curmudgeonly, anti-social instincts have crumbled, and our exchanges usually turn out to be just about the best part of my day. I know you’ll have the same experience reading them (and watching and hearing them, as we expand our multi-media content) as I’ve had getting to know them.”

Culled from Cruxnow.com