Paula Fray has worked in media for more than two decades as a journalist, editor, trainer and media manager. Paula was the first female editor of the Saturday Star newspaper then left to start her own company in 2005.

She is a trustee of Brand SA and Media Monitoring Africa and has wide-ranging consultancy and project management experience.

Paula graduated with a BJourn degree from Rhodes University and has a Woman and Law Certificate from UNISA. A recipient of the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, she is a former member of the Nieman Foundation Advisory Board at Harvard.