{"id":296114,"date":"2019-01-30T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=296114"},"modified":"2019-01-30T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T08:23:08","slug":"businesstech-appoints-new-deputy-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/296114\/businesstech-appoints-new-deputy-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"BusinessTech appoints new deputy editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessTech is pleased to announce the promotion of Quinton Bronkhorst to the position of deputy editor, where he will be responsible for editorial guidance and growing the publication.<\/p>\n<p>Bronkhorst has served as a journalist of the publication since its launch in 2012 and is part of the team behind its exceptional growth.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2018, BusinessTech topped the South African business publication rankings with 2.3 million unique visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Bronkhorst\u2019s promotion forms part of the publication\u2019s strategy to further strengthen its position in the local business and technology media market.<\/p>\n<p>BusinessTech will also host two events in 2019 &#8211; the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/293648\/businesstech-to-host-digital-banking-conference\/\">Digital Banking Conference<\/a><\/strong>, in February, and a Fintech Conference in September.<\/p>\n<p>Editor Gareth Vorster said that Bronkhorst&#8217;s promotion is long overdue. &#8220;Quinton&#8217;s promotion to the management team is well-deserved, having been a strong contributing factor towards the site&#8217;s exceptional growth over the past 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be a key part of the decision making process as we look to take BusinessTech into a new phase of growth, which will include a number of exciting conferences in 2019 and beyond,&#8221; Vorster said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/293648\/businesstech-to-host-digital-banking-conference\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BusinessTech to host Digital Banking Conference<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessTech is pleased to announce the promotion of Quinton Bronkhorst to the position of deputy editor, where he will be responsible for editorial guidance and growing the publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":296126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-296114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296114","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=296114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296128,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296114\/revisions\/296128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}