Raymond Joseph
Cape Town
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Journalist, fact-checker. 2021 Nat Nakasa Courageous Journalism award; 2022 Vodacom Journalist of the Year; Taco Kuiper Investigative Journalism Award 2022
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Raymond Joseph’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Raymond Joseph began his journalism as a cadet reporter at South Africa’s leading anti-apartheid newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail, in 1974 and he has ink running through his veins.
He is a former ICFJ/Knight International Journalism Fellow and has worked for mainstream, community and tabloids newspapers in senior editorial positions. He is a former editor of the Big Issue South Africa, which he helped launch in 1996.
Over the decades he has witnessed many changes in journalism and has made the tr…
Interview
See all 12 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
I ran errands for the editor, ran hand-subbed hard copy to the works. I also wrote fillers and sometimes got to do the odd theater review
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. I still have my Hermes portable in a hard case. It was my first "laptop" when I worked as a foreign correspondent in London the 1980s
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Have a strong sense of right and wrong, a thick skin and expect to have fun but not to get rich