Month: March 2020
Media is right: The church is risking people’s lives
Catholic priest Fr Richard Oduor tested positive for coronavirus and is admitted at Mbagathi Hospital in Nairobi. He flew into the country from Rome, Italy,…
The abuse of ‘sources said’
What happened to shoe-leather reporting? Do reporters walk down the street or go to a village any more to investigate or verify multiple angles of…
Face the facts: Covid-19, media and middle class blindness
One of the shortest intros in the history of Nairobi newspaper journalism appeared on March 26. It simply said, “Man must live” (The Star, p.23)….
Corona coverage need not be all gloom and doom
Tired of bombarding audiences with the dark coronavirus narrative, a number of international media houses are looking for the brighter side of coronavirus. And so…
Media Monitoring: Covid-19 brings health reporting to prominence
This report examines coverage by Kenyan media of Covid-19 that has killed over 29,000 people around the world including a 66-year-old Kenyan. We look at…
Mediascape: A bastardised way of enforcing curfew
The word curfew dates back to the Middle English in the 1600s. It refers to a regulation requiring people to put out fires at a…
Guest Column: It’s media’s job to check state brutality
By Kodi Barth The first and most sacred duty of the state is to protect its citizens. An unexplainable opposite is to brutalize them. Far…
PEN COP: Murder of English in the era of coronavirus
Why Kilifi county must hire a subeditor: In view of the above stated reasons, facts well within your knowledge which calls for greater cooperation of…
Coronavirus: The untold story of the week
In a day of four televised news conferences, three of them on the coronavirus outbreak, journalists and editors in busy newsrooms must have been left…
Guest Column: Editors are risking health of reporters
By Covid Nyabisonsogori A week after the first case of coronavirus was reported in Kenya, and 15 patients later, journalists are still crowding press conferences,…