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ZIMPAPERS Board Chairman Dr Charles Utete has announced senior editorial changes at the Group across all platforms as the company consolidates its status as an integrated media house in the wake of the launch of Star FM radio two years ago and in preparation for a pitch for a television licence.
The appointments are with immediate effect. At the Bulawayo Branch Mduduzi Mathuthu has been appointed Editor of the Chronicle, taking over from Itayi Musengeyi. Mathuthu was editor and founder of New Zimbabwe.com website, former Bulawayo Bureau chief for the Daily News, Editor and publisher of the New Zimbabwe print edition.
Musengeyi becomes Editor of the Southern Times, which is jointly published by Zimpapers and Namibia’s New Era. He started his career as a junior reporter at the then Zimbabwe Inter-Africa News Agency (now New Ziana) before joining The Herald in 1999 as senior reporter and rose through the ranks to diplomatic reporter, News Editor and Assistant Editor of The Herald and then Editor of the Chronicle.
Herald Senior Assistant Editor Tumeliso Makhurane has been appointed Editor of The Sunday News taking over from Paul Mambo who passed on in August. Makhurane is an experienced journalist who rose through the ranks of the Chronicle where he was deputy editor and has acquitted himself well as a senior editorial manager.
Herald Deputy Editor Caesar Zvayi has been appointed Editor of the flagship title and will be deputised by Mabasa Sasa who was editor of the Southern Times.
Zvayi is an experienced journalist having risen through the ranks at The Herald where he started off as a senior political reporter in November 2004, political and features editor, night editor, senior assistant editor and deputy editor, a position he held since 2009.
Sasa brings on board invaluable experience having started has career at the Sunday Mirror before joining The Herald where he rose through the ranks as senior political reporter, political and features editor as well as news editor of The Herald before his appointment as editor of the Southern Times a position he held until his new posting.
Jorum Nyathi, immediate past spokesperson of Jomic and former deputy editor of the Zimbabwe Independent, has been appointed Group Political Editor and brings with him over 21years experience in the media having cut his teeth as a proof reader and sub-editor at the Financial Gazette between 1992 and 1996, before joining the Zimbabwe Independent as sub-editor in 1996 where he rose from sub-editor, chief sub-editor, assistant editor, managing editor to deputy editor before leaving Zimind for Jomic in July 2009 where he was until his appointment to the position of Zimpapers Group Political Editor.
As part of positioning the Group to deal with digital challenges that have seen more and more readers migrate to the digital platform, Innocent Gore, who was editor of The Herald, has been appointed Editor Digital Media where he is expected to spearhead the development of new products among them BH24, and Sport24. Gore has vast experience of working in Harare, Windhoek, Namibia and Bulawayo.
Sunday Mail Deputy Editor Nomsa Nkala has been appointed to head efforts to clinch a TV licence. Nkala is an experienced journalist with vast experience in coordinating coverage between the print and electronic platforms.
Munyaradzi Huni, who was Sunday Mail Assistant Editor, takes over as Deputy Editor of the country’s biggest weekly newspaper. Huni is an experienced journalist, a long serving political editor at The Sunday Mail, who was instrumental in the weekly’s market dominance.
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