Ferial Haffajee
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Ferial Haffajee is the editor of the Mail & Guardian newspaper and was the first black woman editor of a major newspaper in South Africa.
[edit] Early career
Haffajee was a cub reporter at the Mail & Guardian and has acted as its associate editor, media editor and economics writer at various times. Before taking up the editorship she held jobs at state broadcaster the SABC, as a radio producer and television reporter[1], and at the Financial Mail magazine, where she was a senior editor responsible for political coverage and the managing editor.[2]
[edit] Mail & Guardian editorship
Haffajee was appointed editor of the Mail & Guardian in February 2004[3], two years after control of the paper was acquired by Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube.[4] In 2005 the paper became one of the few publications, after the regime change of 1994, interdicted from publishing specific stories[5]. In 2006 the paper was again interdicted, and Haffajee threatened, after republishing controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1318_africa_radio_aw/page12.shtml The Africa Radio Awards
- ^ http://www.theglobalist.com/dbweb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=876 Biography of Ferial Haffajee
- ^ http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=139&art_id=qw1074165121483B253&set_id=1 New editor for the Mail and Guardian
- ^ http://www.news24.com/News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_1251903,00.html Barrell to leave M&G
- ^ http://iafrica.com/news/sa/444064.htm M&G can't print oilgate story - court
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4685040.stm SA editor threatened over cartoon
