Stander, who is based in Port Elizabeth, was appointed to the country\u2019s oldest daily newspaper in January following stints as senior reporter at the daily as well as the Weekend Post<\/a>, one of its sister publications.<\/p>\n According to Stander, her aim is to move away from typical, heavy-reading business jargon to a style that will be more palatable to her readers, who are situated mainly in the Eastern and Southern Cape.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re not in business, the reporting can often be too technical. So I hope to make the news more comprehensible and also show how it affects everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n Having cut her teeth on the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber\u2019s in-house publications and as a reporter at Die Burger, Stander said she understood the needs of both business and the media.<\/p>\n She said her core focus areas would be the automotive and agricultural sectors as well as the import-export industry, which centred its operations around the local ports at Coega and PE.<\/p>\n \u201cI will also focus on the booming small business sector, which has been side-lined in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n Stander, who was raised in the Friendly City and holds a national diploma in journalism from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, said her local knowledge would be an advantage.<\/p>\n She has already notched up two prestigious national awards under the Times Media banner.<\/p>\n In 2010, Stander won the Editor\u2019s Choice category at the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards and followed it up last year with a Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award (formerly the Mondi Shanduka Award) for enterprise journalism.<\/p>\n \u201cI love my job. You wake up each morning not knowing what you\u2019re going to do next \u2013 there\u2019s something different every day.\u201d<\/p>\n The 28-year-old said she looked forward to bringing a fresh and inclusive approach to her function.<\/p>\n \u201cThings have changed, especially now with the integration of print and online media.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are constantly updating our social media with snippets of what\u2019s happening in the paper, which stimulates debate and discussion. It\u2019s great for getting business people talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
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