Roxanne Joseph
Roxanne Joseph is a data journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her focus is on digitally-enabled wildlife trafficking and illicit financial flow. She manages the Oxpeckers tool, #WildEye, and has trained journalists in Africa, Europe and Asia to map, track and report on wildlife and other environmental crimes. In 2018, she was awarded the Vodacom Journalist of the Year regional award (Western Cape) under the data category.
OCRI Event
Data-driven reporting on Green Energy in Africa
An introductory online training module that will equip journalists from Southern African countries on how to use some environmental and climate reporting tools and techniques for better reportage of related issues.
Summer Conference Event
— Demo Tools
Data Journalism and the Rise of Green Crime
Data journalists from Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism will highlight several of the unit’s pioneering geo-journalism tools (#WildEye, #MineAlert, Rhino Court Cases and ClimaTracker) to demonstrate how journalists can incorporate environmental data into their work.
