In her time at the Mail & Guardian, Patel was responsible for bringing stability to the newsroom and in the process assembled one of the best newsrooms in South Africa.
"We believe that M&G readers and staff have a right to know who owns this newspaper and how it is funded"
M&G Media Limited has announced Peter Vundla as the group’s new chairperson of its board.
The <i>M&G</i>’s readership held fairly steady at about 428 000 during the second half of 2010, the latest data from the SAARF shows.
The M&G Media board has announced that Hoosain Karjieker will become chief executive and Anastacia Martin will become publisher of print and online.
<em>M&G</em>’s editor-in-chief Ferial Haffajee will be leaving the paper to take up the position of editor-in-chief of <em>City Press</em>.