Tessa Reed, currently editor of SA Tourism Update, will be taking over as the editor of the flagship of the Now Media group, Travel News Weekly (TNW).
Tessa’s background as a journalist has been with trade publications. She joined Now Media and Tourism Update from IT Web in 2013.
As editor, Tourism Update became one of the few media to profitably make the transition from print to online.
Deputy publisher Natasha Schmidt of TNW announced this week that the incumbent editor, Taryn Nightingale, will be leaving South Africa to join her partner in Switzerland.
“Taryn has been a hugely popular TNW editor, so while we are happy for her, it was a great loss. It is fortunate that we have someone proven like Tessa to take over the baton”, she said.
TNW has been published by Now Media since 1968 and has virtual saturation coverage of the retail travel industry in South Africa.
While a new editor is sought for Tourism Update, Sue van Winsen, a former editor who pioneered the transition from print to digital will return to edit the publication from 26 June. She will be assisted by journalist Kylie Granat. Kylie matriculated at Uplands College in Mpumulanga before completing a law degree at Edinburgh University and a Communications degree in Johannesburg. They can be reached at suev@nowmedia.co.za and kylieg@nowmedia.co.za.
