The Most Famous
JOURNALISTS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 196 Journalists, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 28th most number of Journalists behind Switzerland, and El Salvador.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Journalists of all time. This list of famous South African Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Kevin Carter (1960 - 1994)
With an HPI of 62.58, Kevin Carter is the most famous South African Journalist. His biography has been translated into 48 different languages on wikipedia.
Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan; he died by suicide less than four months afterwards, at the age of 33. His story is depicted in the book The Bang-Bang Club, written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva and published in 2000.
2. Lara Logan (b. 1971)
With an HPI of 53.62, Lara Logan is the 2nd most famous South African Journalist. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent. Her career began with various South African news organizations in the 1990s. Her public profile rose due to her reports on the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, leading to her being hired as a correspondent for CBS News in 2002 and eventually becoming the service's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent. In 2013, a story of Logan's on the 2012 Benghazi attack caused significant controversy due to factual errors and was retracted, resulting in a leave of absence. She left CBS in 2018, and has since made wide-ranging claims on conspiracy theories concerning various topics, such as HIV/AIDS denialism or the Rothschild family. In 2019, she joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative media company. In January 2020, she joined Fox Nation, a subscription streaming service run by Fox News. In March 2022, she said she had been "dumped" by the network. Since June 2022, Logan has been a board member of America's Future, a conservative non-profit chaired by Michael Flynn, who served as National Security Advisor under the first Trump administration.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as South African journalists born between 1960 and 1971. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living South African journalists include Lara Logan. The most famous deceased South African journalists include Kevin Carter. As of April 2024, 1 new South African journalists have been added to Pantheon including Lara Logan.
