Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman

Bio

Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman is a multiple Pulitzer Center grantee and award-winning journalist based in Ghana. He works as a senior reporter and news presenter at the EIB Network (GHOne TV and StarrFM), and a freelance correspondent for The World, the largest international radio news program in the United States.

Dini-Osman has reported from diverse regions including India, Rwanda, Malawi, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone with a focus on global health inequities, social justice, and sustainable development.

He is a 7-time recipient of Ghana’s National Journalism Award. In 2018, he won the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize from the European Commission, and in 2021, the International Center for Journalists’ Global Health Crisis Award for COVID-19 reporting.

In 2022, Ridwan received the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication from the U.S. National Academies. In 2024, he was honored with the Covering Climate Now Journalism Award, and named a United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Fellow, spending three months at the UN headquarters in New York.

Ridwan’s work shines a light on underreported issues, aiming to raise awareness and drive change through rigorous, ethical, and empathetic storytelling. Known for reporting from highly conservative communities, he believes breaking the silence around taboo issues is crucial for fostering understanding and change. His work challenges societal norms, pushing boundaries that others avoid, knowing that true justice and equity require confronting uncomfortable truths.

He has investigated discrimination against minority groups in healthcare, the social and environmental impacts of climate change, and the inequitable global distribution of life-saving medications, such as vaccines, HIV drugs, and cancer treatments.