Aletta Harrison

Aletta is a freelance journalist, filmmaker and educator with a passion for environmental and conservation video storytelling.

 

After growing up in South Africa she started her career at a local radio station in the Channel Islands before working in Cape Town as a multimedia journalist for 10 years.

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She has covered a wide variety of daily news and features, but gained recognition for her environmental reporting, winning awards for features on water pollution and marine poaching.

 

In 2016 she pursued longer-form pieces as a freelancer, and travelled to Uganda to cover the South Sudan refugee crisis, co-produced a television documentary on the diabetes epidemic as well as television pieces for international clients.

 

In 2017 she joined News24 as Special Projects lead to oversee short documentaries and interactive features at the largest news site in the country. During this time she won more awards for stories with environmental themes.

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Her work has appeared online and on television, both in South Africa and abroad, and clients include UNICEF, Mongabay, Hakai Magazine, TRT World, Times LIVE, Primedia Broadcasting, Chronicle, Health-e News, GroundUp, Anadolu Agency, Moneyweb, Where The Leaves Fall and Research Professional News.

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Since 2020 she has been living in the UK and teaches part-time at the University of Kent's Centre for Journalism.