Tanya Pampalone

managing editor GIJN

Tanya Pampalone is the managing editor of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

She has been a journalist for over 20 years, working as a writer and editor in Los Angeles, Prague, San Francisco and Johannesburg, where she is now based. Most recently she was a nonfiction editor for Pan Macmillan South Africa and taught creative nonfiction and digital storytelling at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a founding partner of the Media Hack Collective, dedicated to the craft of digital storytelling. Tanya served as executive editor of the Mail & Guardian, managing editor of Maverick magazine (now Daily Maverick) and head of strategic partnerships and audience development for The Conversation Africa during the start-up phase of the group’s expansion into Africa.

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