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Paydesk has 55 journalists in Cape Town. Our journalists can do broadcast reports, as well as printed media and photography.
Our top journalists in Cape Town are Jane Flanagan and Tim Butcher.
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Journalists in Cape Town
Jane Flanagan
Top Rated
Africa Correspondent of The Times (London)
English
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
News Gathering
Risk Analysis
+5
Business
Current Affairs
Entertainment & Celebrity
+3
Jobs Completed 116
Job Success Rate 98%
Usually Responds Within a few days
Tim Butcher
Top Rated
After twenty years experience as a war correspondent (1989-2009) with The Daily Telegraph, Britain's leading broadsheet newspaper, in war zones from the Balkans to the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, I re-based myself in Cape Town, South Africa, and become a best-selling author and public ...
English
Live Reporting
Fact Checking
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 6
Usually Responds Within a few days
Bill Corcoran
Top Rated
Bill Corcoran is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has worked across Sub-Saharan Africa for the past 11 years providing breaking news and analysis from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland, Liberia, Uganda, Malawi and Zambia to name but a few countries. Bill is currently the ...
English
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
+7
Current Affairs
Fact Checking
Rory Sheldon
Top Rated
African and Latin American video, photo, and print journalist. Over ten years working freelance for different leading agencies.
English
Spanish
Tswana
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+13
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 1
Usually Responds Within a day
Vicky Stark
Vicky Stark is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She currently works as a freelance multimedia reporter for Voice of America TV, radio and online. She is also the producer of the award-winning Weekend Breakfast Show on Cape Talk radio. Prior to this, she worked behind the scenes in ...
Afrikaans
English
Journalism
Current Affairs
Jobs Completed 130
Job Success Rate 98%
Usually Responds Within a day
Eric Kasongo
Eric Kasongo is a seasoned bilingual journalist (French-English) based in Cape Town, South Africa, with a specialized focus on political and economic affairs in both South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). His expertise spans critical sectors such as mining and energy, where he has ...
English
French
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Content Writing
Corporate Content
+4
Business
Finance
Politics
+11
Usually Responds Within a week
James Jamu
Multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker interested in exploring social issues that tackle post colonialism, indigenous culture, environment and identity. I am a member of the African Photojournalism Database. A joint project of World Press Photo Foundation & Everyday Africa. DW Akademie ...
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+3
Technology
Science & Environment
War Reporter
+2
Jobs Completed 1
Kristen Van Schie
I'm an award-winning journalist working as an independent reporter and multimedia producer in southern Africa. I am currently based in Cape Town. I have worked as a correspondent for global news agency AFP and Johannesburg's leading daily paper The Star, filing dispatches from the Central ...
Afrikaans
English
French
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+7
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+4
Usually Responds Within an hour
Antonio Aragon Blanco
Antonio Aragon Blanco is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. I have 10 years experience in different types of journalism and among different companies and projects. I worked 7 years for the Agency of News EFE writing pieces about all the posible topics: sports, politics, culture, ...
English
Spanish
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+9
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+6
Usually Responds Within an hour
Robyn Smith
Robyn Smith is an award-winning broadcast journalist, CNN fellow, content creator and social media producer with twenty years experience in the industry, including television news anchoring, reporting, script writing, producing, news planning and copy editing. She's reported from across the ...
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+13
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
Natural Disasters
+7
Usually Responds Within a few minutes
Ashleigh Hamilton
Ashleigh Hamilton is a broadcast and video journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Producer, Director, Fixer, Researcher, Writer, Photographer Experienced freelance broadcast journalist, fixer and content production professional occupying senior producing and directing roles with several ...
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+11
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+15
Usually Responds Within a day
Tony Weaver
Tony Weaver is one of Africa's most widely published photo-journalists, and has an extensive radio and television background as well. In the past 30+ years, he has worked for most of the major South African newspapers, including a two year stint as a Bureau Chief covering the guerrilla wars in ...
Afrikaans
English
Swahili
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Documentaries
News Gathering
+11
Fact Checking
Usually Responds Within an hour
Saawmiet Moos
saawmiet moos is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. I Have 15 years broadcast experience having worked in radio and television as part of small and large production teams. My speciality is live news coverage and news gathering. I am currently a freelance video journalist for a number ...
Afrikaans
Arabic
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+7
Finance
Politics
Current Affairs
+6
Usually Responds Within a few minutes
Marvin Charles
Marvin Charles is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Writer for Independent Media for various titles such as Cape Argus, Cape Times and Independent Online (IOL)
English
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
News Gathering
Feature Stories
+4
Politics
Current Affairs
Film & Theatre
+8
Jobs Completed 5
Usually Responds Within an hour
Rizel Delano
Rizel Delano is a Research & Development Analyst, Journalist, Brand Consultant, PRO, Writer and Content Director RDL is curious about how things work in getting to understand life and all its constituencies… Which means, she has a vast interest in various topics Since one must have a broad ...
English
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+11
Business
Finance
Politics
+13
Jobs Completed 2
Usually Responds Within an hour
Karin Johansson
Karin Johansson is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa with more than 23 years’ experience covering financial news, lifestyle and entertainment and current affairs across all forms of media including broadcast, print and digital. Most notably, she's been instrumental in the inception and ...
English
Documentaries
Content Writing
Business
Current Affairs
Entertainment & Celebrity
+4
Robin Adams
Robin Adams is a seasoned journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has vast broadcasting experience, having worked in radio and television for over 25 years. Robin is a celebrated television anchor, correspondent, producer and editor. He's worked at South African broadcasters SABC, eTV and ...
English
Live Reporting
Fact Checking
Current Affairs
Fact Checking
Usually Responds Within an hour
Graeme Raubenheimer
A two-time award-winning broadcast journalist with 12 years of experience in television, radio and online news in South Africa, reporting from Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, I hold a BTech Degree (Cum Laude) in Journalism from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and have reported for ...
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+12
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+14
Usually Responds Within a few days
Munyaradzi Makoni
Munyaradzi Makoni is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. His stories on agriculture, climate change, environment, higher education, politics, science and technology, science policy and religion have appeared in SciDev.Net, Thompson Reuters Foundation, Africa Renewal, Research Africa, ...
English
Shona
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Research
+3
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+3
Usually Responds Within an hour
Shaun Swingler
I am a multi-award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker based in Cape Town, South Africa. I focus on social issues in South Africa and abroad – particularly crime and conflict. My work has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, VICE, Al Jazeera, TIME, Roads & Kingdoms, Rolling Stone SA, ...
Afrikaans
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Documentaries
News Gathering
+2
Current Affairs
War Reporter
Fact Checking
Usually Responds Within a few minutes
Isa-Lee Jacobson
I am a filmmaker based in Cape Town, South Africa. I have made videos for Habitat for Humanity and Voice of America through Pay Desk. My website can be viewed on ****. I shoot and edit myself and I own my own camera equipment. Besides South Africa, I have shot films in Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, ...
Afrikaans
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
+3
Politics
Current Affairs
Arts & Books
+2
Jobs Completed 18
Job Success Rate 95%
Usually Responds Within a day
Konan Tipen Adam
konan tipen adam is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Konan tipen Sudanese Filmmaker and Journalist based in East African Former Editor for Nubareports.org and Director at Artrika.org I have worked in Sudan and East Africa to creat a Documentary Film, also I have worked as freelance ...
English
Investigative Journalism
Film & Theatre
Jorisna Bonthuys
Jorisna is a content creator, editor and award-winning journalist with more than 20 years’ of experience in the media industry. She worked at Media24 at Die Burger newspaper as an in-depth environmental and political reporter before joining WWF-SA as a content creator for four years. Here she ...
Afrikaans
English
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
+4
Politics
Current Affairs
Technology
+7
Chris De Beer
Chris de Beer is a photojournalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She is primarily interested in documentary and portraiture but has well-rounded experience in many areas of the industry. She is an alumni of Rhodes University's School of Journalism and particularly gravitates toward stories ...
Afrikaans
English
Photography
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+10
Usually Responds Within a few days
Ernst Calitz
I'm currently studying a postgraduate honours degree in Media Theory & Practice at the University of Cape Town (UCT). When writing I tend to focus and specialize in human interest and protest action. I have a deep understanding of the matter due to my involvement in grass-root-level social ...
Afrikaans
English
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Feature Stories
+8
Politics
Current Affairs
Natural Disasters
+7
Usually Responds Within a day
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