Ferial Haffajee
Ferial Haffajee
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Ferial Haffajee is Editor-in-Chief of the highly rated South African Sunday newspaper City Press. She assumed the editorship in 2009 after successfully steering the investigative Mail & Guardian newspaper for five years. She is one of the leading women in media on the African continent and is a former chairperson of the South African National Editors Forum. She is a fearless and vocal defender of media independence. During her tenure City Press has grown into a powerful, investigative newspaper.
In 2014 she was one of the recipients of the Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award.
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01 Jun 2015 - 03 Jun 2015Washington, D.C. - USA