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• Enter China TV

  Created: Wednesday, 18 April 2012 12:31 Author: Administrator

  China Central Television (CCTV) has set up shop in Nairobi, sending shockwaves in newsrooms by raiding a number of local TV stations for notable broadcasters and other staff.So far, NTV and KTN have been top casualties of CCTV’s raid, with some of the b...

• Change is inevitable

  Created: Wednesday, 18 April 2012 09:32 Author: Administrator

  Workers at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation seem to have been possessed by the spirit of Biko’s words. Their historic strike in March was successful. And KBC may never be the same again.When a wave of strikes swept the country last year, indistinct murmur...

• Women leaders should work on their media image

  Created: Wednesday, 18 April 2012 08:50 Author: Administrator

  In February when the media was awash with reports about wives battering husbands in Central Kenya, the chairperson of Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation Rukia Subow was quoted as saying that men who were not responsible deserved a beating. Just like that....

• Mouthpiece shut

  Created: Wednesday, 18 April 2012 07:01 Author: Administrator

  The intrigues that sank Kenya Today, which hit the newsstands 3 years ago, can now be revealed. The paper was shut down last December by the Minister of Information and Communication, Samuel Poghisio. By that time, things had become so bad at the paper...

• NTV ‘Paradigm shift’ good for journalism

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 12:09 Author: Administrator

  Kenyan media have always been accused of being fixated with politics at the expense of other issues of importance to society. But NTV seems to be determined to correct this perception by running human-interest stories that highlight issues that affect com...

• Sexy talk at breakfast

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 12:06 Author: Administrator

  An online campaign was launched early April against Classic 105 FM, particularly the breakfast talk show co-hosted by Maina Kageni and his sidekick Mwalimu King’ang’i. The brains behind the idea say they are very pissed off by the show’s daily theme...

• No truth on Citizen TV’s ‘Truth Meter’

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:25 Author: Administrator

  When media channels intend to radically transform, change or terminate any of their signature programmes or columns, they inform their audiences in advance as a courtesy.Not so Citizen TV when it decided to change the ‘Truth Meter’ from a fact check t...

• Reporting the politics of sex

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:15 Author: Administrator

  Prostitution, or commercial sex work as activists like to call the trade, has been in the news a lot lately. It started with a protest march organised in Nairobi by sex workers and other people last month to protest harassment by City Council askaris. Ar...

• KTN’s ‘uncertainty’ over rugby

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:00 Author: Administrator

  KTN’s Edith Kimani can claim to be one of the most competitively recruited television news anchors. She earned her position at Kenya’s first privately-owned TV station after winning the grueling Presenter reality show a couple of years ago. However, ...

• How media can foster peace ahead of polls

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 10:47 Author: Administrator

  Kenya is headed to another potentially explosive general election. Given the already charged political atmosphere, there are genuine fears of another round of ethnically-motivated violence such as the one witnessed after the 2007 polls. Hassan Kulundu exp...

• Media should be wary of ‘development’ news

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 10:31 Author: Administrator

  About a month ago, the Star newspaper carried a short news report about plans by the Catholic Church to build a huge, multi-million-shilling water project in Meru County. The dam will supply thousands of households and institutions with water for domestic...

• Is Al Shabaab winning media war?

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 10:22 Author: Administrator

  Kenya’s military offensive against the Somali terror group Al Shabaab is no longer in the news. There are no regular reports of the war, or “incursion” as the government preferred. There are no more embedded TV journalists supposedly dodging bullets...

• Freedom of Information Bill 2012

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 10:05 Author: Administrator

  A legal analysis by Article 19 The process of developing a dedicated law on the right to freedom of information has been ongoing in Kenya for almost a decade. The Kenyan Government promulgated the first draft of the Freedom of Information Law in 2005. In...

• Sub Judice rule Is it still applicable?

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 10:01 Author: Administrator

  First was controversial January 2008 ban on live broadcasting imposed by the Ministry of Information at the behest of then Internal Security minister John Michuki. Then came the gag order by Justice Isaac Lenaola on public debate about the suitability of ...

• Propaganda as political punditry

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:51 Author: Administrator

  The media is now under increasing scrutiny in the countdown to the next election, which is likely to be quite eventful considering the clouds of dust politicians are already kicking up a year ahead of time. Or perhaps there wont be much drama after all: K...