Meet the face Beyond the Byline: Qaanitah Hunter | From reporting live with a hairbrush in hand from the 'warzones' in her mother's bedroom to leading the political landscape in the News24 newsroom. Hear how she made her young dreams her reality.
Young Qaanitah Hunter could be found with a hairbrush in hand, reporting live from"warzones" in her mother's bedroom. Almost two decades later, Hunter is living the dream her six-year-old-self envisioned as one of the youngest political editors in the country.Before she turned 18, Hunter was in the trenches working as a journalist while studying.
In 2019 her fierce political reporting earned her the Nat Nakasa Award for brave and courageous journalism making her the award’s youngest recipient. In 2020, at the age of 26, she was appointed News24's Politics Editor."As women in journalism, we should not be defined by barriers that people put up for us. We should not be defined by what others think," she said.
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