Issa Mansaray

Issa is Associate Editor for MintPress. Mansaray has traveled through Africa, Europe, and the U.S reporting on press freedom, politics, and human rights violations for over 15 years. Mansaray has also worked as a reporter, correspondent, and contributed to various national and international media outlets, including BBC Network Africa, New African Magazine, and The WorldPaper. He is also the co-founder of The AfricaPaper, a training media organization helping African journalists in reporting international news, as well as the Africa Institute for International Reporting (AIIR) to defend press freedom and assist African journalists in distress and in need. From 1998 to 2006, he assisted the International Press Institute (IPI) in researching and writing the Africa report for the IPI’s World Press Freedom Review. He has also written for the Minnesota Spokesman Recorder, For Di People, The African Sun Times, and the Twin Cities Daily Planet. A graduate of Webster University, and Columbia School of Journalism, NY, Mansaray is an awarding winning journalist and a 2013 Kiplinger Fellow on Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio State University. Contact Issa at imansaray@mintpressnews.com.