LINDA VERGNANI - journalist and editor
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My background

I started off working for The Cape Argus newspaper while I was a student at the University of Cape Town and spent more than a decade as a reporter and feature writer at national Sunday and metropolitan daily newspapers in South Africa. I specialised in writing about the impact of apartheid on individuals and communities and also wrote features about the environment, health and education. 

I later freelanced and served as South African correspondent of the United States weekly The Chronicle of Higher Education and a contributing editor to The Cape Argus. I wrote for a wide range of other publications - everything from Africa Environment and Wildlife to Reader's Digest.

In 2001, I won the top prize in the South African Science and Technology Journalism Awards for a feature Arachnoid Park published in Leadership. 

Among my previous roles were:
  • head of communications for the Independent Development Trust, a major South African funding agency 
  • senior book editor at Focus Publishing in Sydney
  • chairperson of the Sydney Freelance Journalists Group.

My major interests include:
  • wildlife watching - especially in remote wilderness areas 
  • food - taste turns me on, I love cooking and collecting recipes
  • photography - nature, landscape and macro-photography
  • tweeting as @ecowrite.
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