Toby Shapshak

Toby Shapshak is the editor of Stuff magazine. He writes a column for The Times newspaper and is also a contributing editor for Business Day’s Wanted magazine.

He was a senior newspaper reporter covering everything from crime to politics before becoming a tech journalist 10 years ago. He has been the Mail & Guardian’s technology editor on three occasions, having also been the newspaper’s sports editor twice, and ran the M&G website when it was the first news site in Africa. He has also been the technology editor for Business Day’s Weekender and ThisDay newspapers.

He was a contributing editor for GQ magazine for nearly ten years and was digital publisher of Avusa’s magazine division, for whom he launched Stuff in 2007

Shapshak was the 2002 Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year, and has won numerous other awards for technology and science journalism. Shapshak also covered the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Sapa and Nelson Mandela’s Gauteng activities when he was president.

In 2009 Shapshak was named in GQ's top 30 men in media and the Mail & Guardian's 300 influential young South Africans. GQ said "Shapshak has become the most high-profile technology journalist in the country" while the M&G wrote: "Toby Shapshak is all things tech. As the editor of Stuff magazine... he reigns supreme as the major talking head for everything and anything tech.