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In the August 2008 ET Magazine

News@Nine

News@Nine


Young, fast paced, upbeat and sexy are the buzz words for prime time news today. Is this the latest strategy by stations to pull in audiences?

It's no longer just the parents watching news; the younger generation has caught up too. While parents may be nodding approvingly at the clear testament to just how sage and mature their offspring are, the kids are tuning in for entirely different reasons: a date with their favourite, hottest, sexiest TV anchor for a whole glorious hour.

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How to create your own African reality Tv show

The reign of melodramatic, second-tier soap operas is gradually coming to an end in East Africa. Soon to be relegated to history are evenings spent around their television sets watching glossy, head-spinning, incestuous stories of mothers becoming their daughters' mothers in law and their grandchildren's step mothers after stealing their husbands and fathers, or jilted lovers mysteriously surviving fires, feigning death and disguising themselves as humble servants to bid time for revenge will be long gone. It's official. Reality shows are now the hottest tart in East African entertainment television. 

Museveni’s call

The Uganda government has agreed on a major crack down on critical media, especially FM radio stations. The only issue still lingering on the minds of President Yoweri Museveni and his Cabinet, who are masterminding the move, is the format it should take.
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Stringent press law enacted in Rwanda

Rwanda's lower Parliament has passed a stringent law that will force journalists to reveal their sources of information before the courts of law.
Furthermore, under the new law, one has to pay a fee of USD20,000 to establish a newspaper and 10 times that amount for a television and radio station.

Missing Whispers

Missing Whispers

Whatever happened to humor and fiction in newspapers?

For five years since his death, humor in the Kenyan media has remained dead - although the characters of Mutahi's episodes live on. Whispers stood out in the Kenyan media for its unmatched wit and humor.

Retelling the African story

Retelling the African story Some time in June, a Kenyan television station screened a reality show centered on the lives of three idyllic New York couples placed in a San community in the vast Kalahari Desert. In the movie cameras follow the agonies and joys of the Americans as they walk for kilometers to fetch water from muddy pools, experiment with loincloths, smear ochre on their bodies and build stick huts from scratch. The primitive cultural ways of the Bushmen make for excellent around-the-fire talk. The men are lazy and lie all day in the sun talking; the women are overworked. Although shot in their land, the bush people remain largely absent from the scenes unless needed to verify their ignorance with one-word English sentences.
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Media watchdogs protest harassment of journalists

Incensed by the recent deportation of Uganda's Daily Monitor reporter, Robert Mukomboozi, and the bundling of three journalists out of a news briefing, international media watchdogs have protested against increasing infringements on media freedom by the Rwandan government.

The situation is compounded by the unexplained closure of The Weekly Post last year after the paper's maiden issue and the starving of media houses of government advertisements.

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Partiality questions dog Mengi’s media

Partiality questions dog Mengi’s media

A Sad tale is unfolding at IPP Media, the most famous publishing house in Tanzania, which unless arrested could reduce it to a rubble. As an indication of the sort of trouble the company is steeped in, for the past few months, staff at The Guardian Ltd and Media Solutions, both subsidiaries of IPP, have been paid salaries late and in two installments, leaving many of them discouraged. That has been the trend for some months.

Julie is off

Julie is off Meet Julie Gichuru, until June news anchor and host of NTV’s political talk show, On the Spot. Gichuru has cut a niche for herself as the intelligent, decorous, nice and politer-than-polite TV personality. She has certainly never been accused of being brash, outspoken or shooting from the hip like her male contemporaries. Nevertheless she gets the questions asked and is definitely no shrinking violet.

Here and There

  • If you have been watching K24 avidly, you may have been noticing something queer with Jeff Koinange during his cosy ‘Capital talk'. Indeed, cosy only begins to describe it. Jeff curls his lith...
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  • The Kenya government in partnership with United Nations Development Programme June 20 launched a project to upgrade skills of journalists to make them more effective as agents for development. The C...
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  • Assault by competition creates jitters Luke Mulunda was in June appointed business editor at the Daily Nation to preempt his imminent departure. Earlier, Peter Okong'o, a sub editor on the bus...
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  • A group of local sports journalists in Rwanda early June set up an independent sports body, Rwanda Independent Sport Journalists Association (RISJA) to promote sports in the country. The more than 5...
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  • The Standard was finally re-launched on 7 July in a colorful ceremony graced by corporate heads, politicians and some diplomats. The new elegant Standard comes with a new motto - For fairness and ju...
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  • Meanwhile New Habari has poached two editors; Daniel Mwakiteleko from Mwananchi Communications and Antony Eric from Free Media, publishers of Tanzania Daima and Sayari. Mwakiteleko becomes the edito...
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  • Stung by frequent staff complaints about a stifling work environment, the Nation Media Group has finally taken concrete action to foster a new corporate culture of shared values, behaviour and team ...
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  • Muhingo Rweyemamu is no longer w...
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  • Africa's leading mobile telephony provider, MTN, has injected $100 million into the 2010 FIFA World Cup to be held in South Africa, as part of its initiative to promote African football. Launching the...
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