Discover Top TV News Producers in Johannesburg, South Africa

I am a Johannesburg based Filmmaker, Director of Photography (DOP), Multimedia Journalist, Producer and Drone Operator. Over the course of my career I have worked in Europe, the US, the Middle East and Southern Africa with different international organizations including the UN Human Rights Office, Al Jazeera English, Global Citizen, TRT World, Goethe Institut, Vice News on HBO, Bloomberg, Amnesty International, Business Insider and Pacifica Radio. In 2017, together with partner Ntshepeng Motema, I co-founded Seithati Media, an audio-visual storytelling company producing film, video, television, and audio content. We create work that aims to reframe perspectives through delicate storytelling, moving emotions and fresh aesthetics. My standard kit: Two Sony 4K Cinema cameras, the FX6 and FX3, with tripods. I use Sony G Master f/2.8 lenses: 24-70mm &70-200mm. My sound kit includes a Sony UWD-D27 2 person lav mic set & Sennheiser MKE600 shotgun microphone, with Zoom H5 when sound needs to be recorded externally. My lights include Godox FL150 S LED key light along with 2 smaller Godox LEDs. Gimbal: DJI Ronin RS2. Drone: 4K DJI Mini 3 Pro.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Drone Operator
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• TV News Producer
• Podcast Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Copy Editor
• Video Editor - News
• Commercial DP
• Fixer
• Executive Producer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary

Dianne began her career in newspapers at the prestigious Cape Town newspaper The Cape Argus where she reported on high profile high court cases as well as human interest stories. The bright lights of television beckoned and she joined eNCA shortly before the launch of the 24-hour news channel. She returned to newspapers as a senior investigative and legal reporter at The Sunday Independent newspaper in Gauteng. After two years she returned to eNCA this time entering the online department as a senior reporter. She has won a number of awards for her work as a reporter. Dianne has worked as the News Editor of The Times and TimesLIVE. She has been the Head of News at POWER 98.7, a Johannesburg-based radio station and worked as Head of News and Current Affairs at Newzroom Afrika where she helped to set up the 24-hour news channel. She later took up the role of Special Project Editor at the channel. In late 2021, Dianne joined the Timeslive group multimedia team as Editor for Video.

• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Executive Producer
• Field Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Audio Storyteller
• Line Producer / On-Location
• On-Air Reporter / Host

My name is Boris, born in Berlin, Germany. After working at TV Station "Deutsche Welle TV" Main Control Room as Transmission Controller, I moved to South Africa to do News Reports. Have done so in 22 African countries for a range of International broadcasters. In 2004, I founded "camera13", video and multimedia, a registered company in Johannesburg. I would describe myself as a Shooting Video Producer, Video Journalist and Editor.

• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Corporate Videographer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• TV News Producer
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

PEOPLE, STORIES, HUMAN STORYTELLER Director, Journalist, Filmmaker My storytelling reshapes perceptions of Africans. Combining a genuine connection to people with my careful craft in constructing stories, I produce emotionally engaging work. I enjoy complicating and deepening how we see ourselves as Africans. My career has taken me across the African continent, as well as to the Middle East and the United States working with organisations including Vice News, Al Jazeera English, France24, TRT World, the Music In Africa Foundation, Public Radio International and eNews Channel Africa. I have a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York. In 2017, together with partner Nick Alexandra, I co-founded Seithati Media, an audio-visual storytelling company producing film, video, television, and audio content. We have done work for clients including the UN Human Rights Office, Amnesty International, Goethe Institut, Music In Africa Foundation, Motsepe Foundation and Global Citizen. Kit: Two Sony 4K Cinema cameras, the FX6 and FX3, with tripods. Sony G Master f/2.8 lenses: 24-70mm &70-200mm. Sound: Sony UWD-D27 2 person lav mic set & Sennheiser MKE600 shotgun microphone, with Zoom H5 when sound needs to be recorded externally. My lights include Godox FL150 S LED key light along with 2 smaller Godox LEDs. Gimbal: DJI Ronin RS2. Drone: 4K DJI Mini 3 Pro (and a 4K GoPro Hero 5).

• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Digital Content Creator
• TV News Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Production Company

Matuba Mahlatjie is a South African-based freelance journalist with 17 years of experience in broadcast journalism. South Africa's first independent channel eNCA and the national broadcaster, SABC are among the local newsrooms Matuba has worked for. International news organisation he's worked for include CNN Johannesburg Bureau and CGTN's Nairobi headquarters. Extensive experience as a gatekeeper (News Editor at eNCA and Sub-Editor at the SABC) before falling in love with being in the field full time. Travelled extensively around the African continent, Europe and the US.

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• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Field Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• TV News Producer
• Copy Editor

Freelance multi-media journalist.

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• TV News Producer
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Audio Storyteller
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• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

I am a multi-skilled, motivated, creative, innovative, experienced media and communications professional, journalist and lecturer. I have worked in several mediums and for several broadcasting and production companies in both in South Africa and abroad. I covered a wide variety of topics. I am currently specializing in agriculture, science, tourism, lifestyle, aviation and environment. I just love visual mediums and I see video journalism and and the internet as the future. I am currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa, but I love to travel to lesser known places in the world looking for those interesting and lesser known stories about science, agriculture, tourism, environment, lifestyle and environment of not only my own country but also all other places where my work and life my take me. I can work in English, Afrikaans and German. I also understand Dutch. I have a BA (Business Communications) and a MA (Business Communications) degree.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Audio Storyteller
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• Creative Director
• Production Assistant

As an Africa correspondent for De Telegraaf and the Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, Al-Jazeera and others, I have been reporting on news and current affairs from all nations across the continent in text and video for over thirty years. I have a strong background in online journalism, Adobe Première Pro, After Effects and Photoshop, which enables me to produce engaging and impactful stories for various media platforms. My mission is to inform, educate, and inspire my audience with stories that showcase the diversity, complexity, and richness of Africa. I have covered topics such as politics, economy, culture, environment, health, conflict and human rights, as well as major events such as the Sudan revolution, the impact of COVID-19 in East Africa, and the deadly migration situation on the Mediterranean Sea. I have also won multiple awards for my video journalism, including the International Video Journalist Award for my TV feature on Joseph Kony in the Congo.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• TV News Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• On-Camera Talent
• Influencer
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Corporate Videographer
• Graphic Designer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Post-Production Manager

Working now at frayintermedia producing documentary and short form video as well as online and social media friendly video. We do animations, full length video or just clips. I use Panasonic pro gear with lapel miss, booms, and the whole shebang. Or just a Smartphone. A lot depends on the requirements. Editing on FCP and Adobe Premiere, Motion and After Effects we produce content for companies, NGO's, and publishers/broadcasters. We do aerial footage (I'm a pilot) and I manage our small team in production. Experience includes news, investigative reporting, broadcasting, online and digital production, managing a mobile phone applications company, online editor for Business Day and Financial Mail, radio reporter for Radio 702. Life experience is pretty vast, along with a huge diversity in media work experience.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• Drone Operator
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Music Composer
• Sound Mixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

Mosibudi Ratlebjane is a freelance journalist based in South Africa Johannesburg, whose work has been informed by a critical analysis of media reporting while striving to represent factual and accurate information, that maintains the integrity of the stories she covers. Over the past eight years of experience in journalism. She has worked at eNCA’s investigative show CheckPoint and the Mail & Guardian as a Social Justice reporter. She has been concerned with issues affecting the youth, violence against women and children and labour issues. In a continuous effort to hold those in positions of power accountable, she hopes her reporting assists in achieving a society that is just, that is fair and one that can make a significant difference in the health and healing of our country.

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• Translator
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• Series Producer / Show Runner
• TV News Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Portrait Photographer
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Podcast Producer

I am a freelance Videographer & photographer with more than 15 years experience in the media industry and have covered assignments in more than 25 African countries. I am also regular contributor to BBC News and Reuters TV. I worked as a Video Journalist on BBC News’s flagship Africa business programmes, Africa Business Report, Talking Business Africa and In Business Africa. Before joining BBC News, I worked as a Multimedia Journalist at Primedia Broadcasting, where I covered major news events in South Africa such as the FIFA 2010 World Cup and filmed the infamous shooting of 34 mine workers at Marikana Mine in August, 2012. I have also covered photographic news assignments for the European Press Photo Agency (EPA) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Podcast Producer
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• TV News Producer
• Fixer

I am a video and photo journalist based in South Africa, covering all spheres of interests, from important and breaking news, to documentary features, to special character stories and developments . I cover business to entrepreneurship, youth development and sport, food and culture to fashion and science. You name it and I am happy to cover it all, build a team for your production requirements, and we'll have fun producing it. We love to tell stories to worldly audiences in a fair, ethical and relative manner. Call and/or email... +27849921214 / x

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• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Sound Designer
• Documentary DP
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Fixer
• Post-Production Manager
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Sound Mixer

I’m a passionate visual storyteller with a special focus on Africa and specifically South Africa where I am based. I have 20+ years of experience as an investigative multi-media journalist and produce in-depth pieces in both short and longform in video, print and audio formats. I have mastered all technical skills including filming and editing to hone my craft and this affords me optimal freedom and flexibility and creativity to hunt down those stories that have remained untold or underreported. I believe everyone has a story worth telling.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Transcriber
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Audio Storyteller
• Digital Content Creator
• Copywriter

iNthatheli Media is a South African training and content company, founded by Dianne Hawker and Candice Bailey. With more than 30 years of journalism experience between the two of them, this dynamic duo are passionate about telling the South African story for a global audience. Dianne has worked in television, radio, newspapers, and online, spending most of her career as a legal journalist. Candice has spent the majority of her career as a newspaper hound specialising in crime reporting and has branched out into health journalism.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Copy Editor
• Social Media Producer
• Content Strategist
• Fixer

I have worked in television broadcasting for the past 13 years. I have worked my way up the ranks starting as a news writer, producer, reporter, deputy programme editor, programme editor, news anchor/presenter. I have worked out of Johannesburg, Cape Town and most recently Istanbul. I have anchored Prime Time news bulletins for eNCA and for 24 hour news. I have also anchored for international news station TRT World in Istanbul.

• Copy Editor
• Reporter / Journalist
• TV News Producer
• Music Composer
• Copywriter

I am a self-taught storyteller whether it's producing or video editing, I'm your guy. I have vast experience in various formats ( music videos, commercials, telenovela, documentaries and branded content) Do you have anything you can help keep me busy with? I'm detail-oriented, efficient in my work, and I'm open to any opportunities to work and learn in the creative industry.

• Video Editor - News
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Senior Editor
• Transcriber
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Line Producer / On-Location

I'm a multimedia journalist based in Johannesburg, covering general news, politics and business in South Africa and further on the African continent. I work in text, writing for online and print, and television.

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• Reporter / Journalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Fixer

My name is Keamogetswe Monaisa. I am a seasoned media professional with vast experience in news production in the field as well as on the desk in local and international newsrooms.

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• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary

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• Executive Producer
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• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Full-Service Live Production
• Non-Fiction Film Director