First for Women Rising Star Award winner

The 1st for Women Insurance Women in The Media Awards 2010 acknowledge the up-and-coming talent in the media and industry legends. Natasha Joseph, the news editor from The Cape Argus and a Rhodes 2003 graduate, won this year’s Rising Star Award.

Joseph was selected from a pool of quality nominations. "Each year our judging panel finds it particularly exciting to see the new crop of up-and-comers making a difference in the industry," says Gordon. "It appears that there are more and more women entering the sector and being given opportunities to move up the ladder. Against all nominations though, one name stood head and shoulders above the rest, Joseph, the news-editor from The Cape Argus”.

Joseph has worked in newsrooms since she was 10 years old, "I grew up watching my father working in newsrooms around the country, and he let me tag along sometimes," says Joseph. She graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2003 and spent some time working as a freelance journalist before joining Rhodes University’s Communications and Development Division in 2005.

Natasha has been published in the Cape Times, Seventeen, Stage, The Big Issue (Cape Town), Femina and the Laugh it Off Annual. She is the daughter of newspaperman Ray Joseph.

In the past, the winner of the Rising Star Award has been a young woman to watch. Joseph joins peers including Redi Direko, presenter for Talk Radio 702 (2008), Siki Mgabadeli, then presenter on CNBC (2007), Tembisa Gebeda, then presenter on SABC (2006) and Sbu Mpungose, then editor of Bona magazine (2009).

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Pic: By Henk Kruger.