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Raymond Joseph

Cape Town
As seen in: CNN, MSN South Africa, The Guardian, SAGE Publishing, ZDNet, Flipboard, Fin24, News24, Sport24, Independent Online and
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

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 transition to multimedia and data-driven storytelling. He is a former head of Code for South Africa’s media programme and its data journalism academy. He has a particular interest in Twitter and social media as journalism tools and also in online and social media content verification, and offers training to journalists in them. He is also as an assessor for the Poynter-hosted International Fact-Checking Network.

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