He is a former Knight Journalism Fellow and over the years he has regularly reinvented himself as a journalist as the industry has changed. He now works across platforms, on and offline, and as a journalist he often tells data-driven stories. He has been active in the area of online fact-checking - both as a journalist and trainer - for the past five years. He is a journalism trainer and works as a freelance assessor for the Poynter-based International Fact Checking Network. He has done fact checking reporting and written guides for various publications, including AfricaCheck and The Media Magazine. For him, fact-checking is second nature and he practices what he teaches in as a working freelance journalist. He has collated an extensive collection of free verification tools and regularly tries out new tools and, if they are useful, adds them to his fact-checking toolkit.