page_title: Paul Shalala
section_title: Journalism career
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Shalala / Journalism career
caption_attribution_description: Reporting in Luena during election campaigns
context_page_description: Paul Monde Shalala, is an international renown and award-winning Zambian journalist, blogger, and political analyst specializing on Zambian, African and world current affairs. He is a reporter for the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation.
  In 2010, he was elected as Secretary for the Zambia Union of Broadcasters. He writes the blog The Zambian Analyst and on other platforms.
context_section_description: After his college diploma in Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising graduation from Sir Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce, Lusaka, Shalala's first was at the newly opened New Vision Newspaper in Lusaka. He joined the paper in July 2008 at the invitation of his former classmate Bright Mukwasa who was in charge of the newsroom. During this stint, he could walk on foot to cover assignments and go back to the newsroom to submit stories. In the two years at the weekly newspaper, Paul rose from reporter to News Editor.
  In March 2010, Shalala then joined Zambia's leading private television broadcaster, MUVI TV, as a reporter and it was there that he honed his journalism skills. At MUVI Television, he gained interest in political news and analysis. This led to the biggest television station in Zambia taking notice of his skills and style. It was at MUVI TV he became a weekly analyst on breakfast shows and occasionally appeared on the 18:30 main news to give analysis on some political developments in the country. He also made his name when he covered the 2011 campaigns and elections with frequent travels with then opposition Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata across the country for the television station. On 14 January 2011, Paul was the only TV journalist to have covered the Mongu riots where a number of people died at the hands of the Police during separatist riots. He left MUVI TV in February 2012 and became a freelance journalist. He has also written for The Media Project and The London Evening Post. He was also doing some consultancy for the Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia Chapter.
  On 3 September 2012, Paul joined the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) as news reporter and he was deployed at TV2 where he reported on community news stories. The following year, he was transferred to TV1 where he covered more of politics and parliament. In April 2015, Paul was transferred to ZNBC's northern bureau which is based in the mining town of Kitwe. He then switched to reporting on mining, the environment, community news and politics.
  His blog The Zambian Analyst has won him several local and international media awards in the past four years. Shalala has worked with international media organisations, including the BBC Africa Service, London Evening Post and South Africa's talk radio Radio 702 as a contributor. Moreover, he has featured regularly on a number of radio and television stations in Zambia as an analyst discussing political and economic developments in the country.
caption: Paul Monde Shalala covering the 2011 election campaigns in Luena, Western Province.
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