Hopewell Chin'ono

Who is Hopewell Chin'ono?

Hopewell Rugoho-Chin'ono is a Zimbabwean journalist. Hopewell has won numerous awards in journalism and has worked in both print and broadcasting.

Hopewell trained as a journalist at the Zimbabwean Institute of Mass Communications before going to City University's Journalism school in London, England. He obtained a Master of Arts degree in International Journalism before working with the BBC World Service as a freelance producer.

In 2003 he returned to his native Zimbabwe to work for the BBC as a freelance correspondent but was banned by the Zimbabwean government from working as a journalist.

He won a British government scholarship to go and read film at Brunel University where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in Documentary Practice in 2007.

He returned to Zimbabwe in 2007 and made an award winning documentary film called Pain in my Heart.

Pain in my Heart won the 2008 CNN African Journalist of the year award, 2008 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Award and the Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Reporting in Africa.

After making Pain in my Heart he set up Television International in Zimbabwe, a production house which produced news for ITN and South Africa's e.tv. He has also worked with CNN International as a field producer.