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Journalists in South Africa
1,301 journalists in South Africa at 123 outlets, 50 with a work email. Last updated October 2026.
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1,301 rows × 10 columns
50 work emails
| Name | Title | Outlet | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lerato Watile Tsolo | Editor in Chief | SABC | not found |
| Brett Wilkinson | Executive Editor Programmes | SABC | not found |
| Layton Beard | Pretoria Bureau Chief, Enews Channel | ETV | not found |
| Amy Cavernelius | Assistant Program Editor | ETV | not found |
| Mbali Hlophe | Assistant Editor | SuperSport | m•••@supersport.com |
| Abiye Opuamah | Subeditor | SuperSport | not found |
| Jo Tyler | Deputy Chief Sub-editor | Mail & Guardian | not found |
| Luke Feltham | Editor in Chief | Mail & Guardian | not found |
The first 8 rows of the file in four of its 10 columns: name, title, title_raw, outlet, country, role, seniority, beat, beat_in_title, email. Emails are masked here and complete in the CSV.
Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.
Findings
- 50 of the 1,301 rows (3.8%) carry a work email in the CSV.
- The ten outlets with the most rows hold 86.2% of the list, led by SABC (876), ETV (74) and SuperSport (59).
- Anchors and presenters make up 30.2% of this list, against 6.8% of all 127,602 journalists on file.
- The beats named most: sports (79), politics (22), finance and markets (16).
- 115 rows (8.8%) carry a senior title: chief, executive, deputy or senior.
Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.
Rows 9 to 30 of 1,301
| Name | Title | Outlet | Country | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Parker | South Africa Bureau Chief | Bloomberg | South Africa | not found |
| Alister Bull | Senior Editor | Bloomberg | South Africa | not found |
| Monicca Leseyane | Assistant Editor | Pearson | South Africa | not found |
| Deanne Vorster | Senior Managing Editor | Pearson | South Africa | not found |
| Garth Theunissen | Senior Business Journalist | News 24 | South Africa | not found |
| Soyiso Maliti | Senior Politics Reporter | News 24 | South Africa | not found |
| Jays Moyo | Editor in Chief | The Times | South Africa | not found |
| Andrea Nagel | Features Writer | The Times | South Africa | not found |
| François Ausseill | Africa Deputy Editor-in-chief | AFP | South Africa | not found |
| Bronwen Roberts | Journalist | AFP | South Africa | not found |
| Byron Blunt | Senior Photo Journalist | CNN | South Africa | b•••@cnn.com |
| Barnaby Mitchell | Photojournalist | CNN | South Africa | not found |
| Tim Cocks | Chief Correspondent, Southern Africa | Reuters | South Africa | not found |
| Ingeborg Lichtenberg | Writer | Reuters | South Africa | not found |
| Tremaine van Aardt | Deputy News Editor | The Herald | South Africa | not found |
| Chanice Koopman | Intern Reporter | The Herald | South Africa | not found |
| Amy Krantz | Presenter | Wildearth | South Africa | not found |
| Johann-Henning Herbst | Television Presenter | Wildearth | South Africa | not found |
| Caitlyn Hilliard-Lomas | Journalist Intern | Broad Media | South Africa | not found |
| Kimberley Kersten | Journalist | Broad Media | South Africa | not found |
| Stephen Cranston | Associate Editor | Financial Mail Sa | South Africa | not found |
| Renée Bonorchis | Independent Senior Financial Journalist | Financial Mail Sa | South Africa | not found |
Emails are masked here and complete in the CSV. Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.
Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026
What the 1,301 rows hold
Countries
| Rows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1,301 | 100.0% |
Roles
| Rows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Reporters | 476 | 36.6% |
| Anchors and presenters | 393 | 30.2% |
| Editors | 336 | 25.8% |
| Correspondents | 40 | 3.1% |
| News producers | 36 | 2.8% |
| Critics and reviewers | 10 | 0.8% |
| Other editorial | 7 | 0.5% |
| Columnists | 3 | 0.2% |
Seniority
| Rows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 61 | 4.7% |
| Deputy | 27 | 2.1% |
| Chief | 15 | 1.2% |
| Staff | 15 | 1.2% |
| Executive | 12 | 0.9% |
1,171 titles name no rank.
Job titles
| Journalist | 188 |
| Presenter | 71 |
| Editor | 57 |
| Radio Presenter | 54 |
| Producer | 44 |
| News Reporter | 33 |
| Broadcast Journalist | 31 |
| News Producer | 28 |
| News Anchor | 27 |
| Commissioning Editor | 27 |
Beats named
| Sports | 79 |
| Politics | 22 |
| Finance and markets | 16 |
| Business | 16 |
| Economics | 13 |
| Entertainment | 11 |
| Technology | 8 |
| Culture and arts | 7 |
| Science | 6 |
| Climate and environment | 5 |
Rows in the list. Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.
How the list was built
The list holds every journalist on file whose profile places them in South Africa, at any outlet.
We started from 1,447 rows. 146 were dropped because the job title names work outside reporting and editing: video, picture and sound editors, photographers and camera crews, assistants, interns, designers, social media and audience staff. 275 titles were cleaned of outlet names, dates and run-on text; the CSV keeps the original in the title_raw column.
A row is listed only when the name, the job title, the outlet and the country are all present. Work emails sit at the outlet's mail domain and were found before the list went on sale; the email_status column says whether the mail server confirmed the address (verified) or it follows the outlet's dominant address pattern on a server that accepts every address (pattern). Where neither applies the cell is blank, and the counts above say how many rows that is. The profiles were collected in July and August 2026. Method.
Questions
- How many journalists in South Africa are on the list?
- 1,301 at 123 outlets in 1 country. By role: reporters 476, anchors and presenters 393, editors 336, correspondents 40.
- Does the list include email addresses?
- 50 of the 1,301 rows (3.8%) have a work email at the outlet's mail domain: 32 confirmed by the mail server, 18 built from the outlet's dominant address pattern where the server accepts every address (marked in the email_status column). The other rows have a blank email cell. Nothing is added after the sale: the file you download is the file described here.
- What is in each row?
- Name, job title, the job title as the profile reads it (title_raw), outlet, country, role, seniority, beat, work email and email_status (verified or pattern). One CSV file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or any CRM.
- Which countries are covered?
- South Africa 1,301.
- Can I see the list before buying?
- The first 30 rows are on this page. A 25-row sample with the full emails comes by email.
- Which rows were removed?
- 146 rows whose job title names work outside reporting and editing: video and picture editors, photographers, camera crews, assistants, interns, designers, social media and audience staff.
- How does it compare to Muck Rack or Cision?
- Muck Rack, Cision and Meltwater sell annual subscriptions and do not publish prices; Semrush's AI PR Toolkit costs $149 to $499 a month (28 October 2026). This list is $29 once, no account, and the file is yours. Comparison of 10 media databases.
- Which outlets in South Africa have the most journalists?
- SABC (876), ETV (74), SuperSport (59), Mail & Guardian (44), Bloomberg (18), Pearson (15).
Related lists
- Journalists at SABC 887
- Journalists at ETV 275
- Journalists at SuperSport 83
- Journalists at Bloomberg 1,635
- Journalists at News 24 85
- Journalists at The Times 428
- Journalists at AFP 760
- Journalists at CNN 883
- Journalists in the United States 61,457
- Journalists in the United Kingdom 10,567
- Journalists in India 6,135
- Journalists in Australia 3,744
Cite this
JournalistLabs, 1,301 journalists in South Africa, October 2026, https://journalistlabs.com/journalists/country/south-africa/.
Base: 127,602 journalists on file. Method: https://journalistlabs.com/method/.
The newsroom count in South Africa
1,530 journalists are on file in South Africa, 1.2% of the 127,602 on file. 506 are reporters and 490 are editors.
Source: JournalistLabs
South Africa has 0.97 editors on file for every reporter. Across the whole file it is 54,548 editors to 46,013 reporters. Source: JournalistLabs.
Roles
| Role | Journalists | Share in South Africa |
|---|---|---|
| Reporters | 506 | 33.1% |
| Editors | 490 | 32.0% |
| Anchors and presenters | 417 | 27.3% |
| Correspondents | 41 | 2.7% |
| News producers | 40 | 2.6% |
| Other editorial | 20 | 1.3% |
| Critics and reviewers | 12 | 0.8% |
| Columnists | 4 | 0.3% |
Source: JournalistLabs.
Beats
271 of the 1,530 journalists on file in South Africa carry a beat word in their title or headline. The shares below are of those titled rows.
| Beat | Titled journalists | Share of titled rows |
|---|---|---|
| Sports | 93 | 34.3% |
| Politics | 27 | 10.0% |
| Business | 27 | 10.0% |
| Economics | 16 | 5.9% |
| Finance and markets | 16 | 5.9% |
| Entertainment | 16 | 5.9% |
| Culture and arts | 10 | 3.7% |
| Technology | 10 | 3.7% |
| Science | 8 | 3.0% |
| Foreign affairs | 7 | 2.6% |
| Investigative | 7 | 2.6% |
| Climate and environment | 5 | 1.8% |
A share is printed only when the country's titled rows reach 40. Source: JournalistLabs.
Other countries
- United States 69,377
- United Kingdom 12,094
- India 7,656
- Australia 4,170
- Canada 3,026
- Sweden 1,879
- Germany 1,643
- Indonesia 1,520
- France 1,369
- Denmark 1,125
- Brazil 1,024
- Italy 907
- Singapore 787
- Spain 770
- Turkey 742
- Ireland 717
- Hong Kong 644
- Philippines 632
- Nigeria 605
- Pakistan 562
- Norway 550
- Belgium 536
- China 535
- Israel 530
- Egypt 525
- Netherlands 512
- Japan 506
- United Arab Emirates 503
- New Zealand 439
- Finland 408
- Mexico 406
- Bangladesh 395
- Slovenia 343
- South Korea 339
- Poland 323
- Kenya 289
- Argentina 279
- Russia 264
- Romania 263
- Portugal 236
- Lithuania 235
- Switzerland 223