Thought Leader Explained

Thought Leader
Commercial:	No
Type:	Portal
Registration:	2007
Owner:	Mail & Guardian
Author:	Mail & Guardian
Current Status:	Active

Thought Leader is a collaborative news and opinion platform owned by the South African newspaper Mail & Guardian. It was named a Webby Award Honoree in 2008, won 2008 SA Blog of the Year, and has scored a few firsts, including sending the first South African blogger, Ndumiso Ngcobo, to cover a major political event – the 2007 ANC national conference in Polokwane.^[1]

In 2010 it was named as the forum where "most analytic discussion of sexual violence" was taking place by the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, which conducted a study on the reporting of sexual violence in South Africa.^[2]

Notable contributors

• Richard Calland
• Andrea Mitchell
• Anton Harber
• Brendan O'Neill
• Bruce Cohen
• Erik Hersman
• Jonathan Berger
• Khadija Sharife
• Marius Redelinghuys
• Matthew Buckland
• Na'eem Jeenah
• Patricia de Lille
• Pierre de Vos
• Sarah Britten
• Sheila Camerer
• Steven Friedman
• Trevor Ncube

External links

• Thought Leader wins blog of the year Kyoko Hasegawa, Daniel Rook 2008
• More honours for Thought Leader Kyoko Hasegawa, Daniel Rook 2008
• The best of Thought Leader Aliki Karasaridis 2009
• Debating race isn't backward Aliki Karasaridis 2009
• Gender coverage: Thought Leader leads the pack Lisa van Wyk 2010
• The new Thought Leader Aliki Karasaridis 2011

Notes and References

1. Web site: Thoughts about the leaders: The columnists 2.0 model. 9 June 2008. Matthew Buckland. 12 April 2013.
2. Web site: Gender coverage: Thought Leader leads the pack.