VANESSA GAMUCHIRAI GONYE
Journalist
24 Harry Pichanick Drive, New Alexandra Park,Harare
Summary
Won awards in health reporting, annually since 2022 to date.
Awards won include Public Health journalist, TB reporter of the year, maternal health journalist of the year (2023 and 2024), Health Journalist of the year 2024, among others.
Have undergone training on health related issues like Neglected tropical diseases, attended several science cares focusing on evolving studies around HIV and other diseases.
Built a strong network within the health sector.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
JOURNALIST/REPORTER/FEATURES WRITER
Alpha Media Holdings
04.2016 - Current
- Main Duties, Responsibilities & Achievements
- Content research and gathering through interviews with sources, data platforms and development programming sites
- Developing written, and editing, knowledge products to inform the public and not limited to human interest stories, impact stories, features and packaging these for different multimedia platforms.
- Steadily contributing to the growth of over 950,000 followers and subscribers (consolidated) through strategic content delivery and community engagement.
- Collaborating with news editors to ensure due diligence is undertaken before publishing and that the information shared is true to the source through verification processes.
- Staying up to date to inform the content gathering process and ensure current pertinent issues are covered in time and up to standard.
- Produced news and Feature stories for organisations including MSF, highlighting their impact on humanitarian work especially during the cholera outbreaks that have continuously plagued the country.
- Worked with Organisations including UNFPA, WHO, UNDP, Global Fund, Red Cross among others in their humanitarian work.
- Consistently contributing stories in the health beat.
PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (Student Intern)
SIMUKA AFRICA
01.2014 - 12.2014
- Main Duties, Responsibilities & Achievements
- Maintained the organisations online and offline visibility (incl. exhibitions) ensuring all digital content was optimised social media pages, including the website and a chat platform, were kept up to date
- Spearheaded content sourcing and design using both to develop knowledge products which included newsletters, magazines issues, pamphlets and posters customized for different themes.
- Strategically developed press & news releases while managing a database of media relations. The combination allowed for a successful patronage to our press conferences I organised and mainstreaming of our organisation’s work. Compiled all press, and news releases as well as conducting press conferences.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Media and Society Studies
Midlands State University
Gweru12.2015
Skills
Content creation
References
1. Kholwani Nyathi
Alpha Media Holdings Editor in Chief
knyathi@standard.co.zw
+263 77 274 9077
2. Michael Gwarisa
gwarisam@yahoo.co.uk
+263 77 628 0754
3. Jairos Saunyama
Alpha Media Holdings Features and Supplements Editor
saunyamajairos5@gmail.com
+263 77 343 4397
Timeline
JOURNALIST/REPORTER/FEATURES WRITER
Alpha Media Holdings
04.2016 - Current
PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (Student Intern)
SIMUKA AFRICA
01.2014 - 12.2014
Bachelor of Science - Media and Society Studies
Midlands State University