Salem Solomon

Salem Solomon is a senior editor with VOA’s Africa Division. In addition to filing her own stories, Salem works with reporters from the Division’s 10 services in 16 languages to bring local stories to a wider audience. Before joining VOA, she was a writer at the Tampa Bay Business Journal and an anchor for Scripps News’ Newsy.com. She also hosted “Global Journalist,” a radio show on international news at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in prominent news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter Online and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. At VOA, Salem produced “How Long Have Africa’s Presidents Held Office?,” a special report that won second place in the data visualization category at the 2016 Africa Media Awards and a data-driven project Hunger Across Africa, a project that won the Cowan Award for Humanitarian Reporting. Before coming to the U.S., she was a television news anchor in her home country, Eritrea. In addition, she is the founder and editor of Africa Talks, a multimedia website about Africa and the global African diaspora and future training hub for African journalists. Salem holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and mass communications from the University of Asmara and a master’s degree in journalism at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.