| Phillip de Wet |
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South Africa| other_names = | siglum = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Journalist| years_active = | known_for = | spouse = | partner = | children = | awards = | website = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}Phillip de Wet is a South African journalist and the foreign editor of News24, where he publishes a weekly column on world events.[1]
He is the author of .[2]
In October 2017, he won a national journalism award for a column about wine gums.[3]
De Wet was the founding deputy editor of daily online newspaper Daily Maverick, which credited him with much of its initial personality.[4] He was also a founder of that website's defunct predecessor magazine,[5] Maverick.[6]
In October 2015 he was appointing as acting deputy editor of newspaper Mail & Guardian.[7] Five years earlier that newspaper had described him as a "journalism school dropout".[8]
In February 2017 police sought to question De Wet about the leak of a draft government report he had written about.[9]
In February 2018 De Wet was appointed as associated editor of Business Insider South Africa.[10]
After Business Insider South Africa closed down with De Wet as acting editor,[11] he was appointed writer-at-large for News24 (website).[12]