Modou S. Joof is an award-winning freelance journalist with more than 12 years of experience. Joof is a correspondent for Bloomberg News and was a part-time news writing trainer at the Media Academy for Journalism and Communication (MAJaC). He had worked as a managing editor at The Voice Newspaper in The Gambia and is a former correspondent of the Voice of America (VOA), and Africa in Fact Magazine in South Africa. Joof completed a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of The Gambia and holds an Advanced Diploma in Journalism from the Gambia Press Union School of Journalism.