Dhyatmika briefed National Press Foundation fellows in July 2023: Making Trade Journalism Come Alive

Wahyu Dhyatmika is the CEO of Tempo Digital. He joined Tempo’s newsroom in 2001 as the East Java correspondent and served as editor-in-chief for Tempo Weekly News Magazine in 2019-2021.

Wahyu believes in journalism as a conversation between the public and the newsroom. He keenly experiments with different forms of citizen reporting (crowdsourcing) as well as new methods and formats for data-driven investigative reporting to better serve the public interest in the digital age.

He led the Panama Papers reporting in Indonesia in 2015, and in 2017, along with several other editors-in-chief of independent media in Indonesia, initiated IndonesiaLeaks.id; a platform for whistle-blowers to securely send documents or insights of possible hidden scandals to newsrooms across Indonesia.

In 2018, Wahyu was involved in the creation of CekFakta.com, the first collaborative fact-checking initiative in Indonesia. He also started a fact-checking project at Tempo, a community reporting project called Tempo Witness and initiated a platform for public complaints called Lapor Tempo. He was a Nieman Fellowship recipient (Harvard University) in 2014.