Profile

Manasseh Azure Awuni is a Ghanaian investigative journalist and a 2023-2024 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Fourth Estate, a non-profit, public-interest journalism project founded by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).

Before joining the MFWA in February 2021, Manasseh had about a decade’s experience in journalism, working as a freelancer and with media houses. Between November 2012 and June 2019, he worked at Joy FM and JoyNews Television at the Multimedia Group. He founded and headed the investigative desk and produced some of the most groundbreaking and impactful investigative stories in Ghana.