Paula Fray, who sits on the South African Competition Commission’s Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry, is the founder of fraycollege, a pan-African accredited media training organisation which focuses on providing practical workplace skills for journalists, communicators and business leaders.

The first female editor of the Saturday Star newspaper in South Africa, Fray was the Regional Director: Africa for Inter Press Service overseeing a regional news agency publishing in English, French, Portuguese, Swahili and Arabic.

In 2005 she launched frayintermedia, a content creation agency that specialises in communication strategy development and implementation including the production of development content across platforms. In 2023, she co-founded the fraymedia Foundation which seeks to support women in media across the African continent.

She is the outgoing President of The New Humanitarian, a Geneva-based news agency and a former board member of Africa Check and Accountability Lab SA. She serves on the board of the Aurum Institute and chairs the board of Youth Health Africa.Fray is a Print and Digital Media SA fellow. A recipient of the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, she is a former member of the Nieman Foundation Advisory Board at Harvard. Fray graduated with a BJourn degree from Rhodes University and has a Woman and Law Certificate from UNISA.