{{Short description|Nigerian journalist}} {{use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Stephanie Busari | birth_name = Stephanie Busari | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|8|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Lagos, Nigeria | education = Leeds Trinity University | occupation = Journalist }}
'''Stephanie Busari''' (born 1977) is a Nigerian journalist notable for exclusively obtaining the "proof of life" video<ref>{{Citation|title=Proof of life for some kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DijqVWcixbo|language=en|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/africa/chibok-girls-new-proof-of-life-video/index.html|title=Nigeria's missing girls: 'Proof of life?'|first=Stephanie |last=Busari|author2=Nima Elbagir|author3=Sebastiaan Knoops|website=CNN|date=13 April 2016 |access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref> for the missing Chibok schoolgirls in the wake of the Bring Back Our Girls advocacy which led to negotiations with Boko Haram that resulted in the release of more than 100 of the kidnapped schoolgirls.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/06/africa/chibok-girls-released/index.html|title=82 Chibok schoolgirls released in Nigeria|first=Stephanie |last=Busari |author2=Kelly McCleary|website=CNN|date=6 May 2017 |access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref>
== Education == Stephanie Busari studied French and Public Media at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds and thereafter attended the University of Rennes for an Advanced Diploma Program.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-busari-66987519/|title=Stephanie Busari|website=LinkedIn|access-date=November 29, 2019}}</ref>
== Career == [[File:Secretary Blinken Participates in an Interview (51700746148).jpg|thumb|Busari interviews US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2021]] Busari started her career at the now-defunct ''New Nation'', a London-based newspaper, and then moved to the ''Daily Mirror''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://punchng.com/stephanie-busari-heads-nigeria-cnn-office/|title=Stephanie Busari heads Nigeria CNN office|newspaper=The Punch|date=26 July 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref> She had a brief stint as a freelance journalist at BBC News before she moved to CNN in 2008 and relocated to Lagos, Nigeria, in 2016 to lead CNN's first digital and multi-platform bureau.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://awim19.africanwomeninmedia.com/speaker/stephanie-busari/|title=Stephanie Busari|date=2019-05-27|website=AWiM19|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sunnewsonline.com/i-want-to-change-negative-reports-about-africa-stephanie-busari/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=I want to change negative reports about Africa – Stephanie BuSari|date=2017-07-29|newspaper=The Sun|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.warnermediagroup.com/blog/posts/20160714-cnn-establishes-multi-platform-bureau-in-nigeria|title=CNN Goes Multi-platform in Nigeria|website=WarnerMedia|language=en|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref> In 2015, Busari was part of the team that won a Peabody Award for the CNN's coverage of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls and in 2017, she won a Hollywood Gracie Award and the Outstanding Woman in the Media Awards for her deep coverage of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/06/23/533789819/stephanie-busari-what-happens-when-real-news-is-dismissed-as-fake|title=Stephanie Busari: What Happens When Real News Is Dismissed As Fake?|website=NPR.org|language=en|date=June 23, 2017|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.unesco.org/world-press-freedom-day-2018/stephanie-busari|title=Stephanie Busari|date=2018-04-24|website=UNESCO|language=en|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref> Busari's 2017 TED talk on "How Fake News Does Real Harm" has been viewed more than a million times and the transcript translated to more than 37 languages.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Busari|first=Stephanie|title=How fake news does real harm|date=24 April 2017 |publisher=TED|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/stephanie_busari_how_fake_news_does_real_harm|language=en|access-date=2019-12-14|via=YouTube}}</ref>
== Awards == Busari is a 2016 recipient of the Divas of Colour International Women’s Awards for Global Leadership.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mbwpr.com/divas-of-colour-2016-award-finalists/|title=Divas of colour 2016 award finalists – MBW PR|language=en-US|date=January 20, 2016|access-date=2019-12-14}}</ref> She made the inaugural global list of the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) in the year 2017 for which she was also the Hall of Fame Award, the recipient.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.mipad.org/mipad-celebrates-her-own-on-international-womens-day/|title=MIPAD celebrates her own on International Women's Day|last=MIPAD|first=Segun|date=2019-03-08|website=MIPAD Blog|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.mipad.org/mipad-nigeria-stock-exchange/|title=MIPAD host Class of 2018 at Nigeria Stock Exchange|last=MIPAD|first=Segun|date=2018-09-03|website=MIPAD Blog|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref> She was also awarded the African Woman of the year at the Pop Culture Africa Awards, 2022 for her outstanding strides on the global scene thereby inspiring the African woman.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PCAA 2022 #8211; Poptv Events Africa |url=https://poptveventsafrica.com.ng/pcaa-2022/ |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=poptveventsafrica.com.ng}}</ref>[https://poptveventsafrica.com.ng/pcaa-2022/]
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