Dele Olojede

By: BlackEntrepreneurProfile.com

Born: 1961, Modakeke, Nigeria

Company: Timbuktu Media

Position: CEO, Publisher

Industry: Media

Country: Nigeria

Dele Olojede, is the CEO, and Publisher of Timbuktu Media and has 25 years of extensive experience in journalism. He is the former Foreign Editor for New York Newsday where he worked until 2004. He founded Timbuktu Media later that year after relocating temporarily to South Africa.
In 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his retrospective on Rwanda a decade after the genocide.
Mr. Olojede was ranked #66 on Fast Company magazine's list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2010.
Mr. Olojede, has covered stories in over 85 countries and has been published in of the world’€™s leading newspapers and magazines including The Economist and The Financial Times.
Mr. Olojede graduated from the University of Lagos with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication and later received a grant to attend the prestigious Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York where he received his Masters degree in Journalism.

Tags: Entrepreneur Male, Nigeria, Publishing

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