Tanya Pampalone - Mail & Guardian

Tanya Pampalone's Profile

Tanya Pampalone is the executive editor of the Mail & Guardian where she oversees arts and culture coverage, narrative and in-depth features and the publication’s special editions, including the end of year and annual religion issues, as well as 200 Young South Africans and the Book of South African Women.

Tanya also lectures on media ethics at the Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership at Rhodes University. She began her career as a freelance writer in Prague and went on to become an assistant editor at Buzz magazine in Los Angeles, the food editor at the San Francisco Examiner and managing editor of Maverick and Empire magazines in Johannesburg. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Reader, the San Francisco Examiner, Newsweek, Elle, O Magazine, the Prague Post, Prognosis, Food and Home and Might. She holds a BA in journalism and a master's in writing from the University of San Francisco.

Tanya won South Africa's top journalism award in 2012, the Standard Bank Sikuvile for creative journalism and was also a finalist in the features category.