malise cullen
Malise Cullen

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JOURNALISM / MULTIMEDIA / DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION

Malise Cullen

Malise Dzidzorm Kofi Omoloye

Accra, Ghana · malise@panagenius.com

Profile

Journalist, multimedia producer, and development communication practitioner working across digital video, editorial writing, research, and public-interest storytelling. Experience includes African current-affairs production, environmental field reporting, community-focused communication strategy, and children’s storytelling.

Experience

Multimedia Producer · PanaLuxe / PanaGenius

2025–present

Face2Face Africa / PanaGenius TV · Accra / Remote

  • Produces digital video, scripts, and editorial content on African current affairs, development, culture, and public-interest issues.
  • Translates complex stories into accessible formats, with contributions to short-form video, editorial packaging, publishing, and audience engagement.
  • Supports digital community communication through WhatsApp and Telegram channels.

Digital Content & Social Media Intern · Media General

2023–2025

3NewsGH / Media General Digital / Media General Sports

  • Created digital news and sports content, supported 3Sports TikTok growth, and wrote for 3News.com and 3xtra.tv.
  • Supported production of The Ghanaian Grind web series and contributed to platform-specific video packaging.

Host & Producer · Radio GIJ

2022–2025
  • Hosted radio programmes, anchored news, and contributed to production of The Discussion Forum.

Selected projects

Zumi & the Great Gutter Gobbler

Co-author & Editor · Jospong Impact Team · 2026

Contributed to storyline development, narration, dialogue, co-authoring, and editing of a children’s environmental storybook, working with author Agnita Agyepong.

Climate Change and Fishing · Jamestown, Accra

Producer & Editor · Environmental field documentary

Visited the community to film and interview fishermen and fishmongers about marine waste, fishing livelihoods, and economic pressures. Produced and edited a public-interest documentary as a school project.

Watch documentary ↗

Extreme-Heat Adaptation Communication Strategy · Bongo District

Group Leader · MA Development Communication academic project · 2026

Led a classroom-based research and strategy project examining heat-risk awareness, possible coping mechanisms, and local communication channels. The proposed strategy was not implemented in the field.

TikTok and Gen Z Political Opinions in Ghana

Research Lead · 2025

Led a four-member qualitative research team and conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 young people in Osu; used thematic analysis to explore political opinion formation.

Education

MA Development Communication · UniMAC

2025–2026

Coursework completed August 2026; degree award/conferment pending. Relevant study includes development communication strategies, communication for social change, indigenous communication, research methods, and project management.

BA Communication Studies (Journalism) · UniMAC

2022–2025

First Class Honours · CGPA 3.78/4.00 · Third Best Graduating Journalism Student, 2025.

Skills & tools

Communication: Research, interviewing, scriptwriting, editorial development, documentary storytelling, stakeholder engagement, qualitative analysis, hosting, and facilitation.

Production: Adobe Premiere Pro, CapCut, Filmora, Adobe Audition, Audacity, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, and digital publishing.

Languages: English (fluent), Ewe (fluent), Twi (basic).

Selected published writing

“Elections are not won on Twitter”, yet here we are · 3News, 2024 ↗

A ride to live or die? · 3Xtra, 2023 ↗