About
Get To Know Fola
Building Platforms For African Content
Media Entrepreneur | Communications Strategist | Journalism Trainer
Fola Folayan is a communications strategist, media entrepreneur, and cross border journalism advocate who designs audience centered storytelling systems that help newsrooms grow reach, trust, and sustainability.
She works at the intersection of journalism, partnerships, and communications. Leading training, and engagement strategies that connect investigative reporting to real world communities.
As Communications and Partnerships Manager at The Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ), she has led global communications and partnership initiatives for investigative and public interest journalism projects, driving fundraising campaigns, international visibility, and multi platform audience growth.
Her work spans podcast production, newsletters, community building, live events, and digital content strategy, alongside designing professional learning programs and convening journalists across Africa and beyond.
A broadcast journalist by training, Fola spent a decade on air producing and hosting live socio-political talk shows on Nigeria's first national talk radio, that reached more than half a million listeners monthly, sharpening her instinct for clarity, public dialogue, and storytelling that moves people.
She then founded the Radio Masterclass; a training and mentorship platform that has supported over 400 early career broadcasters and journalists with curriculum, internships, and practical newsroom skills, helping build the next generation of African media professionals.
She also co-founded the Africa Talks Network; a multi-format network dedicated to telling African stories rooted in context, nuance, and lived experience.
