Tanya Pampalone

Tanya Pampalone has more than 20 years of journalism experience, working in digital and legacy publications in the United States, the Czech Republic and South Africa.

She is currently the managing editor of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit which supports investigative journalists. From her base in Johannesburg, Tanya oversees GIJN’s far-flung editorial team, covering sustainability and innovation in journalism as well as case studies, tools and techniques for investigative journalists in seven languages and eight regions around the world.

In her role at GIJN, she directed the newsrooms of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Johannesburg in 2017 and the Uncovering Asia conference in Seoul in 2018. She was the editorial director of Duke University’s annual Menell Media Exchange from 2014 to 2017; has spoken about migration issues at the African Investigative Journalism Conference (Johannesburg, 2018) and the Franschoek Literary Festival (Franschoek, 2019); held a workshop on crafting compelling narratives at the Business of Truth conference (Johannesburg, 2018); weighed in on the intersection of fact-checking and investigative journalism at GlobalFact6 (Cape Town, 2019); and chaired a panel on innovation at the World Journalism Education Conference (Paris, 2019).

Tanya was co-editor, with international migration expert Loren Landau, of  I Want To Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis (Wits Press, 2018), and was a contributor to Southern African Muckraking: 150 Years of Investigative Journalism Which Has Shaped the Region (Jacana, 2018) and the forthcoming Unbias the News (Hostwriter, 2019). Continue reading “About”