Kenyan journalists Making it Big in International Media

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From Left: Larry Madowo (BBC World), Edith Kimani (Deutsche Welle) and Sophie Ikenye (BBC).
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Kenyan TV anchors are household names in their own right as the country tunes in to watch them presenting news during prime time hours.

Some have gone on to make a mark in international media houses, thriving albeit away from a local audience.

Here is a look at journalists who have gone to make it big in international media.

Larry Madowo

Larry Madowo.
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The former NTV anchor left the Nation Media Group in 2018 where he presented news and hosted a popular show 'The Trend'.

He went on to join BBC Africa as the Business editor, a job he later left in 2019 to further his studies at Columbia University in the US on a journalism fellowship.



He is currently working as a US Correspondent for the global arm of BBC World and BBC World Service where he has filed reports on the Covid-19 situation in the US and the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Edith Kimani

Edith Kimani came to the limelight in 2009 after she emerged the winner of the Presenter Show competition on KTN when she was only 19 years old.

At the beginning of 2017, Edith Kimani left for Germany to start a new life and career in Berlin as a Deutsche Welle (DW) news anchor.

Currently she is the East African correspondent for the station where she covers East African news as a reporter.

DW reporter Edith Kimani speaking at the CWA investment Summit in December 2018.
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EDITH KIMANI
Alphonce Shiundu

Alphonce Shiundu has served at Nation Media and Standard Group (SG) in different capacities. At NMG he wrote news stories, features, analyses on politics, public policy, investigations, legislation and economic affairs and got published in Daily Nation, Sunday Nation, Business Daily and while at SG, he led the team in planning and reporting parliamentary and political news for the media group's publications.

In 2017, the multimedia journalist joined regional fact-checking organisation Africa Check as the pioneer country editor.

He has a strong global professional network as a 2017 Chevening Scholar at the University of Westminster, London, and is a 2015 alumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative Regional Learning Centre in Nairobi.




While at Africa Check, he introduced fact-checking research to Kenya’s mainstream print and electronic media, including to the Nation Media Group, the BBC and KTN/KTN News television stations.

Africa Check editor Alphonce Shiundu
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  Catherine Wambua-Soi is Al Jazeera's East and Central Africa producer. She covers Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Central African Republic, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.
  She has worked for Al Jazeera since 2008 and covered major stories in the region including Somalia's elections and the assassination bid of the Somali president.
  She has covered the conflict between M23 rebels and the government in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as well as South Sudan's independence and the conflict between rebels and the government in Sudan's Blue Nile region.
  
  
  
  Al Jazeera Correspondent Catherine Soi reporting.
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  Beatrice Marshall
  Arguably one of the most renowned anchors from KTN, Beatrice Marshall was revered for her powerful bulletins and impactful interviews.
  She however, exited the media house after eight years and joined China Global TV Network (CGTN), formerly known as CCTV, as a news anchor.
  At the station, she hosts a program called Talk Africa. In this program, Marshall talks to leaders and personalities on the African continent.
  
  
  
  CGTN anchor Beatrice Marshall
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  Sophie Ikenye
  Sophie started her media career at KBC as an intern, before she moved to NTV where she anchored news until her departure in 2009.
  In an interview with a local publication, Sophie stated that she had always wanted to become a news anchor.
  “I quite liked broadcasting when I was growing up. I even practiced being a TV presenter in front of the mirror with a spoon as a microphone!” she disclosed.
  Sophie is now a presenter at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London, where she hosts a programme called Focus in Africa.
  
  
  
  BBC Anchor Sophie Ikenye
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  "On Focus on Africa, we are passionate about telling the real African stories and finding different ways to tell them on all platforms,” Sophie told a local publication.
  BBC Africa Reporters
  In 2018, there was a mass exodus of reporters to BBC Africa where a number of anchors and reporters joined the station whose regional headquarters are based in Nairobi.
  Among those who joined the British broadcaster were Zawadi Mudibo, Charles Gitonga, Hudheifa Aden, Peter Mwangangi, Bonney Tunya, Mercy Kandie and Sylvia Chebet.
  K24TV's Ian Wafula also joined the broadcaster where he now hosts a show called the Breakdown.
  
  
  
  Journalist Ian Wafula at the BBC East Africa Bureau in Nairobi on August 1, 2018.
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Kenyan TV Anchors Making it Big in International Media

 

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Hongera zao, wazidi kabisa kuiwakilisha Kenya na kuendeleza agenda za [emoji1139] kimataifa. 😉 Wenzao majirani huwa nawaona wamejikunyata kwenye studio zao, wakiwa wamevalia makoti yao oversize, utadhani cameramen wao ni wawindaji haramu. [emoji1]

 

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Hongera zao, wazidi kabisa kuiwakilisha Kenya na kuendeleza agenda za [emoji1139] kimataifa. [emoji6] Wenzao majirani huwa nawaona wamejikunyata kwenye studio zao, wakiwa wamevalia makoti yao oversize, utadhani cameramen wao ni wawindaji haramu. [emoji1]

Hiyo yote ni kwasababu ya kile tunaita used for. Watumikia white people hivyo hutoa sadaka kwenu ili muendelee kuwatumikia vizuli, jiulize mfano BBC Swahili mmejaa wakati kiswahili kibovu hata hamna ushindani na watanzania lakini ndo kile tunaita used for-------.

 

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Hiyo yote ni kwasababu ya kile tunaita used for. Watumikia white people hivyo hutoa sadaka kwenu ili muendelee kuwatumikia vizuli, jiulize mfano BBC Swahili mmejaa wakati kiswahili kibovu hata hamna ushindani na watanzania lakini ndo kile tunaita used for-------.

Acha majungu jombaa, watu wanang'aa kimataifa kwa uchapakazi wao na walivobobea kwenye taaluma zao, sio utaifa wao. Sasa majirani mna wanahabari kweli, au ni usanii usanii tu wa machiriku wa chama flani cha kisiasa?

 

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Acha majungu jombaa, watu wanang'aa kimataifa kwa uchapakazi wao na walivobobea kwenye taaluma zao, sio utaifa wao. Sasa majirani mna wanahabari kweli, au ni usanii usanii tu wa machiriku wa chama flani cha kisiasa?

Wapo wengi tu aina ya akina salimu kikeke wanauwezo mkubwa kimataifa, kuhusu kufagilia chama wana akili sana kukifagilia chama ambacho ni mkombozi wa afrika nzima , Kenya ikivurugika hicho chama kinakua mstari wa mbele kuwaweka sawa kwa mustakabali wa maisha yenu ya Leo na kesho.Kenya ikianguka hicho chama Mara moja kinawaonea huruma na kuwaweka pamoja, hivyo sio mbaya kukifagilia chama kama hicho.

 

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Wapo wengi tu aina ya akina salimu kikeke wanauwezo mkubwa kimataifa, kuhusu kufagilia chama wana akili sana kukifagilia chama ambacho ni mkombozi wa afrika nzima , Kenya ikivurugika hicho chama kinakua mstari wa mbele kuwaweka sawa kwa mustakabali wa maisha yenu ya Leo na kesho.Kenya ikianguka hicho chama Mara moja kinawaonea huruma na kuwaweka pamoja, hivyo sio mbaya kukifagilia chama kama hicho.

Huyo Salim Kikeke kwanza huwa mnamsuta sana, nyie ni watu wa majungu na wivu hamna kizuri hutoka kwenu na kisiangukie pua.

 

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Huyo Salim Kikeke kwanza huwa mnamsuta sana, nyie ni watu wa majungu na wivu hamna kizuri hutoka kwenu na kisiangukie pua.

Kwa hiyo unataka list ya watanzania wanaofanya kazi radio za kimataifa? Mbona wako wengi sana jombaa

 

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Kwa hiyo unataka list ya watanzania wanaofanya kazi radio za kimataifa? Mbona wako wengi sana jombaa

Sisi ni watu tunapenda ukweli na uwazi, hivyo akikosea akaenda kutumika vibaya na hao waliomwajiri basi lazima asemwe ili ajirekebishe aishi katika mila na desturi zetu, sio kwasababu anafanya kazi katika vituo vya kimataifa basis tumfagilie tu, hatupo hivyo, hatutaki sifa za kijinga.

 

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Wapo wengi tu aina ya akina salimu kikeke wanauwezo mkubwa kimataifa, kuhusu kufagilia chama wana akili sana kukifagilia chama ambacho ni mkombozi wa afrika nzima , Kenya ikivurugika hicho chama kinakua mstari wa mbele kuwaweka sawa kwa mustakabali wa maisha yenu ya Leo na kesho.Kenya ikianguka hicho chama Mara moja kinawaonea huruma na kuwaweka pamoja, hivyo sio mbaya kukifagilia chama kama hicho.

Sio bure, hayo yote ulioyataja yanawahusu makada ambao hawana kazi, sio wanahabari.

 

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Sio bure, hayo yote ulioyataja yanawahusu makada ambao hawana kazi, sio wanahabari.

Mimi so mwanahabali, lakini kama mwana habali kazi yake ni kubomoa basi taaluma hiyo haifai kabisa kwa binadam, lakini hao unaowapuuza ni watu wanaojenga utaifa wa nchi na kutoa elimu kubwa kwa mtanzania kujielewa , sio huko kwenu kila mtu yupo huru kuongea hata kama ni ujinga usiojenga mnamfagilia, ndo maana taifa hili ni imara sana kuliko huko kwa jirani

 

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Mimi so mwanahabali, lakini kama mwana habali kazi yake ni kubomoa basi taaluma hiyo haifai kabisa kwa binadam, lakini hao unaowapuuza ni watu wanaojenga utaifa wa nchi na kutoa elimu kubwa kwa mtanzania kujielewa , sio huko kwenu kila mtu yupo huru kuongea hata kama ni ujinga usiojenga mnamfagilia, ndo maana taifa hili ni imara sana kuliko huko kwa jirani

Ingekua media yenu ipo vizuli ,uchaguzi ukifika mnauana kama wanyama, kazi ya media ni kujenga sio kubomoa

 

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Acha majungu jombaa, watu wanang'aa kimataifa kwa uchapakazi wao na walivobobea kwenye taaluma zao, sio utaifa wao. Sasa majirani mna wanahabari kweli, au ni usanii usanii tu wa machiriku wa chama flani cha kisiasa?

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