Ferial Haffajee is Editor-in-Chief of City Press, the same position she previously held at the Mail & Guardian.
An alumni of the Africa Leadership Initiative, a project of the Aspen Institute, Ferial sits on the board of Gender Links, which works to improve the media’s coverage of development and gender empowerment. She is a previous winner of the Shoprite-Checkers Woman of the Year award, The Media magazine’s Women in Media award, a Sanlam financial journalism award and the Naspers group's most prestigious internal prize, the Phil Weber award. In 2008, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Ferial has also worked at Financial Mail and at the SABC in both radio and television. She sits on the boards of the International Press Institute and the World Editors Forum. In addition, she chairs the SA National Editors Forum’s ethics and diversity committee.