Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Longtime TV producer Jessica Pitchford now managing editor for investigative magazine show Checkpoint on eNCA and e.tv.

Veteran South Africa TV producer Jessica Pitchford has joined the weekly investigate magazine show, Checkpoint, on eNCA (DStv 403) and e.tv.

Jessica Pitchford is now the managing editor of Checkpoint where Nkepile Mabuse is the executive producer and host.

Jessica Pitchford is most recognised for her work at, and most closely associated with, M-Net's Carte Blanche where she was most recently the managing editor as well for the past half a decade.

The award-winning TV and longtime producer was however for years a TV reporter for SABC News for news and current affairs and worked for SABC3's Special Assignment and others actuality shows.

Last year with Carte Blanche's 25th anniversary on M-Net, Jessica Pitchford authored the commemorative book Carte Blanche: The Stories Behind the Stories.