Caroline Anipah

Caroline Anipah is media and communication consultant with special expertise in fact-checking and disinformation work. She was previously the Deputy Director in charge of the Fact-checking, Verification and Media Literacy Practice (Dubawa) at the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and in her role was responsible for programme leadership, strategic partnership and coordination and management of projects across the organisation’s countries of operation. Caroline pioneered Dubawa in Ghana and led the subsequent expansion of the platform across Sierra Leone, Liberia and The Gambia. She has covered and fact-checked elections in all five Anglophone West African countries, trained over 2000 journalists and other publics, supervised and edited several disinformation research and investigations and led significant reforms at Dubawa, making it a respected fact-checking organisation globally.

Caroline has attended and made presentations about information disorder and other media–related topics on numerous stages including the ninth and tenth Global Fact-checking Conference (GlobalFact), the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) and the 2023 African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC).

She previously worked with the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and has consulted for organisations such as the Ghana Statistical Service, German Development Cooperation and the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana).