{"id":180315,"date":"2017-06-20T14:17:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=180315"},"modified":"2017-06-20T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:17:55","slug":"huffpost-sa-appoints-new-editor-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/180315\/huffpost-sa-appoints-new-editor-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost SA appoints new editor-in-chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pieter du Toit has been appointed editor-in-chief of HuffPost South Africa, Media24 announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the controversial resignation of former editor, Verashni Pillay.<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit has served as deputy editor of HuffPost since its launch in October 2016 and takes over the reins on July 1, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPieter is one of the leading political analysts in South Africa and has been responsible for a significant part of the audience HuffPost South Africa has developed in six months,\u201d said HuffPost SA editor-at-large Ferial Haffajee.<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit has 14 years\u2019 experience as a writer, journalist and editor, and has worked on many of Media24\u2019s biggest news brands.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/171531\/huffington-post-sa-editor-resigns-after-press-ombudsman-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huffington Post SA editor resigns after press ombudsman report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pieter du Toit has been appointed editor-in-chief of HuffPost South Africa, Media24 announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":172197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-180315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180317,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180315\/revisions\/180317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}