Toivo Ndjebela | |
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Nationality | Namibian |
Education | University of Namibia, University of Helsinki |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor |
Years active | 2006– present |
Title | Namibian Sun, editor-in-chief |
Website | https://www.namibiansun.com/ |
Toivo Ndjebela is a Namibian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the Namibian Sun daily. He also worked as managing editor of the state-owned New Era newspaper.
Ndjebela holds a bachelor's degree in media studies from the University of Namibia (2006) and a master's degree in foreign reporting from the University of Helsinki (2007). He also obtained a Masters in Development Study and Policy in 2018 from the Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP), University of Cape Town.[1]
He has worked as a deputy news editor at the state-owned newspaper New Era, a reporter at the tabloid newspaper Informanté, and as a senior journalist at the Windhoek Observer. He was appointed as the editor of the Namibian Sun in May 2012.[2] Ndjebela returned to New Era in 2014, and again to the Namibian Sun, as editor-in-chief, in 2019. In 2021, he along with veteran journalist and editor Gwen Lister, was acknowledged as champion of world press freedom.[3]