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Toby David Shapshak’s career in journalism has spanned breaking news, investigative reporting, covering politics, sport and technology, to running two online newspapers, editing a national newspaper’s sport and technology sections at the same time and editing a men’s magazine.
Toby is the editor of Stuff, the South African edition of the world’s largest-selling gadget magazine. He writes a column for The Times newspaper and is a contributing editor for Business Day’s Wanted magazine. He regularly appears on CNBC Africa and Talk Radio 702 to discuss technology trends.
He was the Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year for 2002, and was a runner-up in the mainstream newspaper category in 2003 and 2004. He won the fixed telecommunications category in the 2003 Profile Awards, which rewards science and technology journalism in the SADC region. He has previously won awards for his science journalism and was a judge for the 2003 digital Loeries.
In 2009 Shapshak was named in GQ's top 30 men in media and the Mail & Guardian's 300 influential young South Africans. GQ said "Shapshak has become the most high-profile technology journalist in the country" while the M&G wrote: "Toby Shapshak is all things tech. As the editor of Stuff magazine... he reigns supreme as the major talking head for everything and anything tech."
He has written for the Mail & Guardian, Sunday Times, Sunday Independent, Financial Mail, Business Day Weekender, This Day, The Observer in London, and various local magazines, including GQ, GQ Cars, Maverick, Empire, Best Life, ELLE, Elle Decoration, Visi, Marie Claire, Fair Lady, Cosmopolitan and SA Sports Illustrated. He has been a stringer for international wire agencies UPI and AFP. His technology writing has appeared in Brainstorm, Unwired (now called Digital Life), PCFormat, PCReview, African Communications, Intelligence, Convergence, Mobile.Works, Intelligence and other technology publications.
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Toby is the editor of Stuff, the South African edition of the world’s largest-selling gadget magazine. He writes a column for The Times newspaper and is a contributing editor for Business Day’s Wanted magazine. He regularly appears on CNBC Africa and Talk Radio 702 to discuss technology trends.
He was the Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year for 2002, and was a runner-up in the mainstream newspaper category in 2003 and 2004. He won the fixed telecommunications category in the 2003 Profile Awards, which rewards science and technology journalism in the SADC region. He has previously won awards for his science journalism and was a judge for the 2003 digital Loeries.
In 2009 Shapshak was named in GQ's top 30 men in media and the Mail & Guardian's 300 influential young South Africans. GQ said "Shapshak has become the most high-profile technology journalist in the country" while the M&G wrote: "Toby Shapshak is all things tech. As the editor of Stuff magazine... he reigns supreme as the major talking head for everything and anything tech."
He has written for the Mail & Guardian, Sunday Times, Sunday Independent, Financial Mail, Business Day Weekender, This Day, The Observer in London, and various local magazines, including GQ, GQ Cars, Maverick, Empire, Best Life, ELLE, Elle Decoration, Visi, Marie Claire, Fair Lady, Cosmopolitan and SA Sports Illustrated. He has been a stringer for international wire agencies UPI and AFP. His technology writing has appeared in Brainstorm, Unwired (now called Digital Life), PCFormat, PCReview, African Communications, Intelligence, Convergence, Mobile.Works, Intelligence and other technology publications.
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