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Verashni Pillay is listed as Media entrepreneur | Multi Award-winning editor and journalist | Speaker | Digital communications consultant. at explain.co.za, based in Johannesburg Metropolitan Area, South Africa, South Africa. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Verashni Pillay.
Verashni Pillay previously worked as Founder at Explain.Co.Za and Head of Digital: POWER 98.7 at Power 987. Verashni Pillay holds Mini Mba, Business Administration And Management, General from Texas Mccombs School Of Business.
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Verashni Pillay is a South African media owner who is passionate about digital and the future of journalism. She is the founder of explain.co.za: a digital communications agency, and a partner news website with a WhatsApp-driven portal offering accessible and empowering news for those who don’t usually follow current affairs. It was named the best news literacy project in Africa in 2021 by the World Association of Newspapers. The company broke even in its first year and has seen double-digit revenue growth since. She was previously the Head of Digital at talk radio station, POWER 98.7, editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian and inaugural editor-in-chief of HuffPost South Africa. Under her helm all site's traffic consistently grew, as did the M&G print circulation – despite a depressed climate. In all her senior roles, she actively pursued strategies to grow revenue and develop new products. She cut her teeth in digital journalism with Media24 for several years before joining the M&G digital team in 2009 as a reporter. She has also worked as a media consultant and trainer in various newsrooms, specialising in digital journalism, social media and convergence. Verashni is a recipient of a CNN African Journalism Award, an OSF journalism fellowship, the Mandela Washington Fellowship and was named one of BBC’s 100 women globally. She selected to the South African Media Innovation Programme in 2020 and the Solution Journalism global network's LEDE programme in 2022.
Listed skills include Online Publishing, Journalism, Storytelling, Newspapers, and 12 others.
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Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Verashni's award-winning startup aims to reach new audiences with accessible and entertaining information, which empowers them to hold power to account. This includes explain.co.za which publishes explainers and The Weekly Wrap - a WhatsApp channel that summarises the news via text, audio or video. The latter was named the “Best Project for News Literacy”.
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Verashni hired a digital team and conceptualised a comprehensive digital strategy for the station whileinvestigating new ways to make an impact within the content and news space. She set up the station’sfirst digital department and relaunched every aspect of the station’s digital properties and holding company, MSG Africa, including podcasts, streaming.
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Verashni was the the inaugural editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post South Africa: the publication's 17th international edition and first in subsaharan Africa. She oversaw a team of reporters and editors with a focus on politics, news breaks, lifestyle, entertainment, video and highly accessible digital journalism.
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Verashni stepped into the role of editor at the M&G after the company had been through enormous upheaval, including retrenchments and plummeting circulation. In under a year she recruited a new, energised team within the newsroom, stabilised and grew overall circulation to consistently increase the publication’s paying readership, and positioned the.
South Africa
She focused on writing and columns, for which she would later win an award, as well as broader digital work within the industry. She worked as a digital consultant for Media24’s City Press newspaper from January to April, where she worked closely with the online team on their processes and editorial outputs, a new site design and digital strategy, and.
Johannesburg
In September 2013 she was promoted to associate editor of the entire newsroom and focused on full-time reporting at a senior level. Verashni covered major events for the website and the newspaper including the 2010 World Cup, elections, as well as key political conferences.
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
In November 2010 she was promoted to deputy editor for the website. She was tasked with overseeing and commissioning all editorial content online, coordinating and managing the online editorial team and spearheading convergence with the newspaper, while editor Chris Roper focused on the larger strategy and commercial aspects of the division. She managed.
In October 2009 she was recruited by the M&G and began working as an online journalist. Noting the need for better digital processes, she submitted a proposal for overhauling the department which was accepted. Two months later she was made managing editor online and asked to implement the new strategy. Her roles included: - Overseeing production of unique.
Cape Town
In 2006, she received a full bursary from South Africa’s biggest media company, Media24, to do her honours and in return worked for the country’s largest news website News24 upon graduating, from 2007 till October 2009. As the site’s first original content reporter she set up reporting systems, drew up a large contact list and produced features, news.
Participated in the McCombs School of Business Business & Entrepreneurship Institute at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), as part of.
Activities and Societies: SRC, Debating, student journalism, Residence leadershipShe received her bachelor of Journalism at Rhodes.
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Verashni Pillay works for explain.co.za.
Verashni Pillay is listed as Media entrepreneur | Multi Award-winning editor and journalist | Speaker | Digital communications consultant. at explain.co.za.
Verashni Pillay is based in Johannesburg Metropolitan Area, South Africa, South Africa while working with explain.co.za.
Verashni Pillay has worked for Explain.Co.Za, Power 987, Huffpost South Africa, Mail & Guardian, and Media24.
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Verashni Pillay holds Mini Mba, Business Administration And Management, General from Texas Mccombs School Of Business.
Verashni Pillay is listed with skills including Online Publishing, Journalism, Storytelling, Newspapers, Newspaper, Feature Articles, Social Media, and Editorial.
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