Anton Harber has been a journalist for 44 years, as a reporter, editor, manager, educator/trainer, columnist and free expression activist.
Harber was a founder-editor of the anti-apartheid newspaper The Weekly Mail / Mail & Guardian and Editor-in-Chief of the country’s leading TV news station, eNCA.
He is a board member of Africa Check, the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ). He runs non-profit organisations the Campaign for Free Expression and the Henry Nxumalo Foundation (which supports investigative reporting).
Anton has written or edited a number of books, including So, for the Record: Behind the headlines in an era of state capture (2020), Diepsloot (2011) and Southern African Muckrakers: 300 years of investigative reporting that shaped the region (2019).
For two decades, he held the Caxton Chair of Journalism at Wits University as an adjunct professor.