Ferial Haffajee

Ferial Haffajee
Farial Haffajee speaking at Wiki Indaba 2024.
Farial Haffajee speaking at Wiki Indaba 2024.
Born (1967-02-20) 20 February 1967 (age 57)
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • newspaper editor
  • author
NationalitySouth African
Alma materUniversity of the Witwatersrand

Ferial Haffajee (born 20 February 1967)[1][2] is a South African journalist and newspaper editor. Haffajee was editor of City Press newspaper from July 2009 until July 2016 and was previously the editor of the Mail & Guardian newspaper.

Haffajee was awarded the 2014 International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists[3] and was appointed to the board of the International Press Institute in 2011.[4]

Haffajee is currently Associate Editor at the Daily Maverick,[5] and was previously editor-at-large at HuffPost South Africa until it ended its partnership with Media24 in 2018.[6]

  1. ^ "Board members stay gender linked". Gender Linked (14). Gender Links. February 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  2. ^ Quist-Arcton, Ofeibea (26 January 2004). "South Africa: Ferial Haffajee: South Africa's First Woman Newspaper Editor". AllAfrica. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Ferial Haffajee, South Africa - Awards - Committee to Protect Journalists". cpj.org. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  4. ^ Ellis, Steven M (5 October 2011). "IPI Elects New Board Members". IPI. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  5. ^ "Spin does business no favours – why we need an educated media". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Media24 and HuffPost to end SA partnership". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2018.