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Amharic Speaking Freelance Journalists
paydesk has 77 reporters who speak Amharic. Our journalists can do broadcast reports, as well as printed media and photography. Our top correspondents who speak Amharic are Addisu Chekol and Dawit Gelmo. Use our journalist directory to find an Amharic speaking member to work for you.
Journalists Who Speak Amharic
Addis Chekol is a journalist based in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
Amharic
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+8
Current Affairs
Breaking News
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 62
Job Success Rate 98%
Usually Responds Within an hour
Dawit E. Gelmo is a journalist based in, Ethiopia. Gelmo is a graduate of Addis Ababa University School of Journalism and Communication and currently working as stringer for the Voice of America Horn of Africa Service. Previously, he was working from Nairobi Kenya precisely on the migration and ...
Amharic
English
Oromo
+1
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+12
Business
Finance
Politics
+14
Jobs Completed 102
Job Success Rate 98%
Usually Responds Within a few days
Aster Misganaw is a journalist based in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. She currently works for the Voice of America, Horn of Africa Service. She mostly reports in Ethiopian official language Amharic. Aster has been with the Voice of America since 2018. Before joining VOA, she was an award-winning journalist ...
Amharic
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+5
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+12
Jobs Completed 97
Job Success Rate 99%
Solomon Yimer is an experienced journalist based in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. He used to write for Addis Fortune and The Ethiopian Reporter newspapers and other local and international publications as well. He also worked as content editor at Addis Zeybe, Addis Ababa based digital media outlet. ...
Amharic
English
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+11
Business
Finance
Politics
+10
Jobs Completed 3
Usually Responds Within an hour
I had been working at the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), for more than eight years since 2011. In the corporation I performed in different editorial departments which include News, Entertainment and Sport; before I joined Al Ain News. After serving Al Ain News for a year and a half since ...
Amharic
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+9
Business
Finance
Politics
+15
Jobs Completed 135
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a few hours
YONATAN ZEBIDEWOS is a journalist based in Awassa, Ethiopia working for Voice Of America (VOA). He have worked for Debub Radio and television agency and for Ethiopian News Agency not less than for 7years. He have covered different political, economic and social stories.
Amharic
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+8
Politics
Current Affairs
Natural Disasters
+7
Jobs Completed 85
Job Success Rate 99%
Gebremichael Gebremedhin is a journalist based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Amharic
Tigrinya
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+7
Business
Finance
Politics
+14
Jobs Completed 118
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a few hours
Tsehay Damtew is a VOA journalist in Ethiopia, based in Addis Ababa. She has been working for more than six years in VOA as a horn service stringer since December 2018. She had been working in FBC as a reporter, senior reporter and Producer too. She had also worked on her own promotion and ...
Amharic
English
Oromo
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+4
Arts & Books
Entertainment & Celebrity
Media Training
+4
Jobs Completed 91
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a few hours
Dereje Gonfa is a journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has worked as a freelance journalist and language translator for the past ten years. His previous experience includes working as a senior journalist at the Addis Standard and as the communication coordinator for an advocacy organization for ...
Amharic
English
Oromo
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+7
Business
Current Affairs
Cultural
+2
Usually Responds Within a day
I am an award-winning Ethiopian journalist, analyst, and author with over a decade of experience at the intersection of journalism, diplomacy, and international affairs. As a seasoned correspondent and contributor, I specialize in political economy, geopolitics, and global governance, offering ...
Amharic
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+17
Business
Finance
Politics
+11
Usually Responds Within a day
Melkamu Abebe is a freelancer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is working for VOA Horn Service since December 2018 as Horn Stringer in Afan Oromo and Amharic languages. He had been working for Ethiopian News Agency for about two years as a reporter and Producer. And he had an experience of FM and ...
Amharic
English
Oromo
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+6
Business
Current Affairs
Entertainment & Celebrity
+8
Jobs Completed 44
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a day
Nebiat Assefa Melles is a video journalist and documentary film maker based in Kigali, Rwanda. Her recent documentary “Blue Devil” has won the Knight Award for Best reporting in Science and Environment, also got nominated as Best Short Documentary at Pan Africa Film Festival, Montreal Black Film ...
Amharic
Tigrinya
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+5
Business
Technology
Science & Environment
+7
Jobs Completed 2
Usually Responds Within a day
Yikunoamlak Mulugeta is a TV and Film Producer and Director based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has produced different entertainment and thought provoking features for local tv stations in the country.
Amharic
English
Tigrinya
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+15
Business
Finance
Politics
+24
Usually Responds Within an hour
Mulugeta Atsbeha Gebremicheal is a journalist based in Mek'ele, Ethiopia. Mulugeta Atsbeha former reporter at Mekele FM 104.4 and Tigrai Television also worked as News editor at Fana Broadcasting corporate Mekele Fana FM 94.8. Mulugeta starts working as a reporter at Voice of America from ...
Amharic
Tigrinya
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Fact Checking
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 125
Job Success Rate 99%
Usually Responds Within a day
Bereket Teklemichael is a multilingual journalist, columnist, and a media researcher, specializing in conflict reporting, political analysis, and violence documentation based in Tigray Ethiopia. He is contributor to Addis Standard, Brakhe, TPM, and Tigray Herald. With experience spanning ...
Amharic
Tigrinya
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+17
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+16
Usually Responds Within a day
Berhane Berhe is a journalist.
Amharic
Tigrinya
News Gathering
Fact Checking
Film & Theatre
Jobs Completed 77
Job Success Rate 99%
Isaac Abraham is a freelance journalist and content management writer for different local and international media outlets, with good writing and speaking skills.
Amharic
English
Tigrinya
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+4
Business
Current Affairs
Technology
+9
Usually Responds Within a few hours
Alem Fesseha is a journalist based in Mek'ele, Tigray, Ethiopia. He had been reporting for VOA Horn Service in Amharic and Tigrigna for several years. He had been reporting on socio-economic and political issues and have experience for several years.
Amharic
English
Tigrinya
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+7
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+16
Jobs Completed 41
Job Success Rate 100%
Zecharias Zelalem is a journalist focusing on Ethiopian affairs and the Horn of Africa as a whole.
Amharic
English
French
Content Writing
Investigative Journalism
Interview (Print / Radio / Podcast)
+1
Politics
Sports
Investigative Reporting
+1
Jobs Completed 2
Usually Responds Within a day
Mesfin Aragie is a journalist based in Dessie, Ethiopia.
Amharic
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+5
Business
Finance
Politics
+16
Jobs Completed 80
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a day
Maya Misikir is a freelance journalist based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She has experience working for print as well as broadcast, radio and TV. She mostly covers current affairs for VOA but also writes in-depth analysis for other publications.
Amharic
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+9
Current Affairs
Media Training
Breaking News
+1
Jobs Completed 3
Bewket Abebe is an Addis Ababa -based freelance journalist. With over 13 years of experience in journalistic storytelling, he has covered a diverse range of topics, with a particular focus on political economy, for numerous local and international media outlets across digital, print, and television ...
Amharic
English
Documentaries
News Gathering
Feature Stories
+6
Business
Finance
Politics
+5
Usually Responds Within a few hours
Zayd Tesfay is a journalist based in Mekele, Ethiopia. Zayd is Now Director of new media (online media)directorate at Tigrai Tv. Zayd startes working in Tigrai mass media agency (Tigrai Tv) from july 2020 till now. broadcast journalist audio package and video. Currently, Zayd is a writer, ...
Amharic
Tigrinya
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+13
Business
Finance
Politics
+15
Usually Responds Within a day
MELAKU AYELE MESORE is a Journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I have ample experience in working in various news; sport program, culture, in various Social, Political and economic affairs. Producing documentary films & radio programs. I graduated from Addis Ababa University in ...
Amharic
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+4
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 2
Téwodros Workneh is Associate Professor of media and communication at the School of Communication Studies, Kent State University. Dr. Workneh’s teaching and research explore global media industries and policies as they relate to universal access, information justice, and freedom of expression.
Amharic
English
Tigrinya
Research
Politics
Media Training
Research
+1
Jobs Completed 2
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