Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman
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Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman is an award-winning Ghanaian broadcast journalist working as a senior reporter and news presenter at the EIB Network (GHOne TV and StarrFM) in Accra and a freelance correspondent for the U.S. public radio program The World.
He has reported from Rwanda, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and India, focusing on global health inequities, social justice and sustainable development. His reporting examines how systems, institutions and policy decisions affect individuals and communities, particularly those whose experiences are often overlooked or underreported.
Dini-Osman is a 2025–2026 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a Senior Global Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity at George Washington University, and a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center. He is an eight-time recipient of Ghana’s National Journalism Award.
His international honors include the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Award, the U.S. National Academies’ 2022 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications, the International Center for Journalists’ 2021 Global Health Crisis Award for COVID-19 reporting, and the European Commission’s 2018 Lorenzo Natali Media Prize.
