Daily Maverick is a South African independent news publisher. It publishes no telephone number and says so plainly – its contact page notes the team “can be a little hard to reach sometimes, especially on the telephone” and asks you to email the right desk instead. The details below were read from dailymaverick.co.za on 2 September 2026.
Official contact channels
- General enquiries, interview requests, right of reply, newsdesk: [email protected]
- Letters to the editor and editorial submissions: [email protected]
- Newsletter problems, including non-delivery: [email protected]
- Maverick Insider membership queries: [email protected]
- DM168 home delivery: [email protected]
- Advertising and rate cards: [email protected]
There is no switchboard. Any Daily Maverick phone number offered by a directory did not come from the publication. Two things also do not go by email at all: news tip-offs and website bug reports each have their own form on the contact page.
What this organisation provides
Daily Maverick publishes daily news and analysis online, the First Thing newsletter, and DM168, a weekly print edition delivered to subscribers. Its reader-funded membership programme is Maverick Insider, which it says is supported by around 32,000 contributing members and is what keeps the journalism free to read.
The mailboxes split along those lines, and using the wrong one is the usual cause of a slow reply: a membership billing question is an Insider matter, a missing newspaper is a DM168 matter, and a newsletter that stopped arriving is a First Thing matter – none of them are general enquiries.
Address and operating information
Daily Maverick publishes no street or postal address and no office hours on its contact page. It operates as a distributed newsroom, and email is the only general route in.
Because no physical address is published, there is no confirmed destination for a formal letter or legal notice. If you need to serve something, ask at [email protected] for the registered address in writing first.
Support and escalation routes
If you have been written about and want to respond, say “right of reply” and use [email protected]. Daily Maverick lists right of reply explicitly on that address alongside interview requests and the newsdesk – it is a recognised route, not a favour, and raising it directly with the publication is the fastest correction path.
Protecting a source matters here too: if you are sending a tip-off, use the tip-off form rather than a general mailbox, and consider what your own email address reveals about you.
If the publication does not resolve a complaint about its journalism, the correct external route is the Press Council of South Africa, whose Press Ombud adjudicates complaints against member publications under the Press Code, free of charge. It can order corrections, retractions and apologies – and note that lodging there generally requires you to waive parallel legal action on the same matter.
A complaint about how your personal information was handled goes to the Information Regulator under POPIA, though journalism carries specific exemptions. An advertising complaint goes to the Advertising Regulatory Board.
Sources
- dailymaverick.co.za contact page, read 2 September 2026