Mihlali Ntsabo Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, GP, ZA

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Johannesburg

• Compile, exercise editorial control of newscasts by working with a team of reporters to deliver relevant content for bulletins.
• Assist with producing stories required for news bulletins.
• Source and write international news that is relevant to audience into bulletins.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Podcast Producer/Host:
• Offer engaging commentary for community news audience, research topic discussions, creating and planning on air and online strategies to promote podcasts.
• Produced a podcast feature focusing on unpacking homelessness in South Africa, prompting the South African government looking at ways of providing shelter and basic needs for homeless people in the country. Podcast won.
• Produced a podcast looking at a wide range of issued faced by South Africa’s LGBTQIA+ community (including corrective rape, access to safe healthcare, access to shelter and migrants seeking refuge in South Africa)..
• Researched and prepared interview question and discussion points.
• All podcasts ranked in the top 3 most listened to audio at Eyewitness News winning two prestigious journalism awards and receiving multiple nominations, with listenership stretching to countries outside of SA, such as.

• Publication’s first South African writer.
• Contributed opinion pieces and essays comprised personal and researched realities of LGBQTIA+ community in South Africa.
• Collaborated with editor-in-chief of publication to pitch topics to write about, including but not limited to Pan-Africanism, using art as political expressions & South Africa being safe haven for LGBTQIA+ migrants)

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Facilitated focus group discussions on HIV/Aids awareness amongst minority groups severely impacted by the pandemic, such as MSM and the LGBTQIA+ community throughout South Africa.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Produced diverse and original editorial content using different media platforms such as photo essays/galleries, videos which helped grow South Africa’s leading LGBTQIA+ publication.
• Covered news affecting and involving (South) Africa’s LGBQTIA+ community, including hostile living conditions at refugee camps in countries such as Kenya.
• Created, sub-edited and published daily news content for Mambaonline website.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Live reporting of breaking news on a day to day basis.
• Research, producing features (written, audio and video pieces) contributing to the monthly growth of The Daily Vox website.
• Some articles, such as features, cross published and printed on one of South Africa's leading newspapers, the Mail and Guardian.
• Attended media briefings, events on compiled written or video features on content covered.

East London, South Africa Metropolitan Area

• Bulletin news compiling and writing in English and IsiXhosa.
• Read the news on the radio station’s breakfast show.
• Sources news from various publications and news outlets and credited accordingly.
• Covered stories in and around community for news bulletins.

Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa

• Bulletin news compiling and writing in English.
• Read the news on the radio station’s mid-morning campus show.
• Sources news from various publications and news outlets and credited accordingly.
• Covered stories in and around community for news bulletins.