WRITER

Debora Patta

1964 - Today

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Debora Patta (born 1 September 1964) is a South African investigative broadcast journalist and television producer. She was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and has origins from Calabria, Italy. Patta is the Africa correspondent for the American news program The CBS Evening News. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Debora Patta has received more than 233,866 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Debora Patta is the 7,278th most popular writer (down from 6,450th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Zimbabwe (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Zimbabwean Writer.

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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 33.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Debora Patta ranks 7,278 out of 7,302Before her are Fatima Bhutto, Anupama Chopra, Jed Whedon, Owen Jones, Ben Goldacre, and G. Willow Wilson. After her are Maajid Nawaz, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Pierce Brown, Taiye Selasi, Janet Mock, and Michael Hastings.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Debora Patta ranks 948Before her are Maria Miller, Trey Gowdy, Mark Pocan, Rekha Bhardwaj, Silken Laumann, and Paul Jewell. After her are James Langevin, Inessa Merkulova, Jim Florentine, Drew Massey, Juliana Donald, and Samuel Parot.

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In Zimbabwe

Among people born in Zimbabwe, Debora Patta ranks 45 out of 45Before her are Ann Grant (1955), Aleksandr Sergeyev (null), Nyasha Mushekwi (1987), Patricia McKillop (1956), Marvelous Nakamba (1994), and Knowledge Musona (1987). After her are Rachel Klamer (1990), Brendan Galloway (1996), Mukhammadkarim Khurramov (1997), Ngoni Makusha (1994), Peter Wetzlar (1997), and Taryn Mallett (1992).

Among WRITERS In Zimbabwe

Among writers born in Zimbabwe, Debora Patta ranks 7Before her are Alexander McCall Smith (1948), Paula Hawkins (1972), Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959), Chenjerai Hove (1956), Yvonne Vera (1964), and NoViolet Bulawayo (1981).