Nontyatyambo Petros is the deputy editor of Business Report. Prior to this she spent two years at Financial Mail, first as special projects editor and later as a commissioning editor.
She started her media career as a web journalist, working as assistant editor for Metropolis, a now-defunct subsidiary of Primedia, before joining Business Day as online news editor.
She later became a financial writer and labor correspondent for Business Day. In 2003, she left the newspaper to join Grocott’s Mail, a community newspaper based in Grahamstown, where she was editor.
Petros has attended a United Nations fellowship for journalists and broadcasters and presented papers at various national and international conferences.
She graduated from Rhodes University in 1996, with a joint honours degree in journalism and media studies and industrial sociology. Last year she studied towards a post-graduate diploma in business administration at the Gordon Institute of Business Science.