Daily Maverick
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Daily Maverick screenshot on 29 March 2013
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Online newspaper |
| Publisher | Styli Charalambous |
| Editor | Branko Brkic |
| Associate editor | Ranjeni Munusamy |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Sister newspapers | Free African Media, iMaverick |
| Website | www |
Daily Maverick is a South African daily online newspaper founded in 2009 and edited by Branko Brkic and published by Styli Charalambous. It is run by an independent private company. According to the Daily Maverick website, the publication is "a unique blend of news, information, analysis and opinion delivered from our newsroom in Johannesburg, South Africa". Charalambous says the website is also "a platform for photojournalism, providing readers with a visual insight into what is happening in South Africa, Africa and globally".
Contributors include free market columnist Ivo Vegter, constitutional law expert Pierre de Vos, founding General Secretary of COSATU Jay Naidoo, activist Sisonke Msimang, and photojournalist Greg Marinovich.
Daily Maverick is part of the The Guardian Africa network.
The Daily Maverick website was publicly launched late October 2009. Its name and values are derived from that of Maverick, a defunct South African business magazine published and edited by Brkic from 2005 to 2008. It was also influenced by American news websites The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post. Brkic was born in Yugoslavia and came to South Africa in 1991.
Technology entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig Jnr was Daily Maverick's first investor. He also introduced Brkic to Charalambous. In his book Mobinomics, he says:
In the online media arena, I invested in a venture run by one of the most driven and determined mavericks I know. Branko Brkic, editor and publisher of the Daily Maverick, a journal of news and commentary that is helping to shape the way we see our noisy, disruptive democracy.
Charalambous, a chartered accountant, joined the team a month before the website was launched in 2009. He was born and educated in Port Elizabeth.
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