Phillip de Wet
Phillip de Wet is a South African journalist and the author of .[1]
In October 2017, he won a national journalism award for a column about wine gums.[2]
De Wet was the founding deputy editor of daily online newspaper Daily Maverick, which credited him with much of its initial personality.[3] He was also a founder of that website's defunct predecessor magazine,[4] Maverick.[5]
In October 2015 he was appointing as acting deputy editor of newspaper Mail & Guardian.[6] Five years earlier that newspaper had described him as a "journalism school dropout".[7]
In February 2017 police sought to question De Wet about the leak of a draft government report he had written about.[8]
In January 2018 De Wet was appointed as associated editor of .[9]
References[]
- ^ Wet, Phillip de (2014-03-28). Nkandla: The Great Unravelling. Mail & Guardian. ISBN 9780620601856.
- ^ "Winners of Standard Bank 2017 Sikuvile Journalism Awards announced". Media Update. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
- ^ "Op-Ed: What made Brain Porn alive? | Daily Maverick". www.dailymaverick.co.za. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
- ^ "New local news website launches". Retrieved 2017-10-26.
- ^ "Branko Brkic guards the gate of the higher mind | IOL Business Report". Retrieved 2017-10-26.
- ^ "Mail & Guardian appoints new editor-in-chief". Retrieved 2017-10-26.
- ^ Pampalone, Tanya. "The site your mom warned you about". The M&G Online. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
- ^ "Police mum on 'concerning' visit to M&G over Public Protector 'leak'". CityPress. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
- ^ "First editor of Business Insider SA appointed". Fin24. 2018-01-12. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
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- South African journalists
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