We are pleased to introduce the Twenty Ten editorial team. This group is responsible for:

-    Determining the editorial guidelines
-    Coming up with and deciding on story assignments
-    Determining what is suitable for distribution
-    Coaching the Twenty Ten participants

This group will guarantee the quality standard of what is produced and that it is in line with the project’s objective. They feel strongly for the motto: Africans telling Africa’s stories.

Greg Marinovich, South Africa

Photo by Chris de Bode

Greg Marinovich is the Editor-in-Chief of the Virtual Editorial Team. Born in South Africa in 1962, Greg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and is co-author of The Bang Bang Club, a nonfiction book about South Africa’s transition to democracy (currently being made into a feature film, starring Ryan Philippe). He has spent 18 years doing conflict, documentary and news photography around the globe. His photographs have appeared in top international publications such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian of London, among others. He is chair of the World Press master Class nominating committee for Africa, and was a World Press Photo judge in 1994 and 2005, as well as convenor of the FujiFilm awards in 2000. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Nat Nakasa award for courageous journalism. His passion for storytelling led him to the documentary film world, and he has produced, directed and shot numerous short films covering subjects such as child soldiers and Pygmies in Cameroon and Uganda. He travelled to Afghanistan to interview Ahmed Shah Massoud shortly before his death.

Greg Marinovich blog

Bethany Joy Dawson, South Africa

Bethany Dawson is the English copy editor of the editorial team. Originally from Northern Ireland, she spent five years in Zimbabwe as a teenager. When she returned to her home country in 2001, she did a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at the University of Ulster. Upon completion, she returned to Zimbabwe to carry out research for a novel. She later moved to Dublin for post-graduate education and to complete a qualification to teach English as a foreign language.

After completing a Master of Philosophy degree in Writing and Editing at Trinity College Dublin in 2007, she began working for The Zimbabwean Newspaper. In 2008, she was promoted to the position of Assistant Editor. Her roles include writing articles, re-writing and editing raw copy from journalists, training upcoming editors, proofreading, liaising with journalists about ideas for stories and other administrative duties.

Since moving to South Africa last year, she has been working on a freelance basis for non-profit organizations. The projects she has been involved in include the design and content of promotional materials for a local school, re-writing educational material for a community-based organization and editing monthly newsletters for an eco-tourism resort.

Stories by Bethany

John Hogg, South Africa

John Hogg is the Photographic Editor on the editorial team. South African born, he resides in Benoni, east of Johannesburg where he does most of his work. He currently works as a freelance photographer after 20 years on various major South African newspapers, from photographer to Photographic Editor. John’s newspaper career came to an end with the closing of the Nigerian-based publication, Thisday.

Over the years in the media, John covered all aspects of newspaper photography while specializing in the arts, in particular dance and music. He also covered various sporting codes and was fortunate to visit the West Indies on the South African cricket team’s historical first visit to the Caribbean. He was also at the 1995 Rugby World Cup finals in South Africa, The African Cup of Nations finals in 1996, also at home and The Soccer World Cup in France with the South African Team. Along with this he photographed a variety of other sport from wheelchair basketball to jukskei (a traditional Afrikaner sport similar to horseshoes).

Travel and documentary photography also feature strongly in John’s work as do many photographs taken simply for the pleasure thereof. John’s interests lie in music, reading crime novels, long drives in the Northern Cape and staring into space.
www.johnhogg.co.za

Bart van Hattum, the Netherlands/Spain

Bart van Hattum, KNN chief editor for the Twenty Ten project, is a TV journalist from the Netherlands. Together with six Kids News Network (KNN) journalists from Zambia, South Africa and Mozambique, he will visualize stories related to the World Cup for children all over the world. The goal is to show the passion kids have for soccer and give them a voice to tell about their daily life.

As a reporter and camera journalist, Bart covered many news stories for the Dutch kids news program NOS Jeugdjournaal. For Freevoice, he frequently trains KNN journalists in Peru, Curaçao and Mozambique. Bart is based in Spain where he works as a freelance reporter for foreign news channels and the Dutch press agency ANP.

Jens Kiesheyer, the Netherlands

Jens Kiesheyer is responsible for the editing of English and French radio reports during the second half of the World Cup period, as well as helping out with French language communication between the editorial team and the participants.

Jens was born in Germany, but has spent most of his professional career as a journalist in France. He worked for more than nine years for the French international radiobroadcaster RFI (Radio France Internationale), was the radio correspondent in Paris for the German news agency DPA/RUFA and worked for the Strasburg based European cultural TV channel ARTE.

Since 2009 Jens Kiesheyer has been managing the Twenty Ten project as Program Officer for the Dutch media NGO Free Voice.

Dominique le Roux, South Africa

Dominique le Roux is passionate about helping people tell their stories. With the VET, she will focus on marketing and distribution. This South African brings her nearly 20 years of media experience – as a writer, magazine editor, book publisher, web content manager, television presenter and photographic agent – to bear in her role as Media Manager at Africa Media Online, the organization that is passionate about African’s telling Africa’s stories. Dominique plays the role of liaison between African journalists and international media, helping to enable African media practitioners to reach international standards, and informing global media houses about the services offered by African media professionals. Her company, Moonshine Media, acts as a strategic advisor, business manager and production partner to photographers and writers in Africa and around the world. Moonshine Media manages the production of media from conceptualization to publication — from origination of words and images to commissioning of service providers to delivery of the finished product.

Moonshine Media
Moonshine Media blog

Alois Rwiyegura, Rwanda/Burundi

Alois Rwiyegura is from Rwanda/Burundi and based in South Africa, Johannesburg. He is responsible for editing English language text and radio, in the period leading up to the World Cup also for French, as well as helping out with French language communication between the VET and the participants. He has worked as a psychologist, radio journalist (SABC) and a writer. He interested in subjects related to politics, social theories (social change) and literature. His hobbies include reading, writing, traveling and fishing.

Stefan Verwer, the Netherlands

Stefan Verwer is the director of lokaalmondiaal and one of the initiators of the Twenty Ten project. He writes as a journalist for www.roadto2010.nl and is one of the editors of the book Africa United: The road to Twenty Ten. Within the editorial teem, he will be representing the interests of the Dutch market as well the project’s own outlets, such as the Dutch website and the exhibition. He is very knowledgeable about African football and interesting story ideas. During the World Cup, he will focus on working more closely with the writing journalists in the Dream Team as the news and feature editor.