For Alex Chamwada, KTN offers a soft landing

Things have certainly gone full circle for Alex Chamwada.

A year after resigning from Citizen TV and promising to start his own show, one of Kenya’s prominent television reporters is back to KTN, the station where he honed his skills in political reporting and analysis. It is some sort of soft-landing for him, given the fast-paced media industry in Kenya that can easily forget even the best of its members.

Mr Chamwada worked at KTN between 2004 and 2006 then left for further studies never to return. He has come back in a new show called The Diplomatic Narrative, clearly drawing from his international reporting experience for Citizen at the Hague and Somalia.

The veteran journalist has been traversing parts the continent shooting and gathering content believed to be part of the show.

Mr Chamwada is one of the most experienced journalists Kenya. His return confirms that in media, as with politics, there are no permanent friends and enemies.  The industry has been so fluid with poaching and counter poaching that have seen journalists work for more than one TV station twice.

This has deprived media houses – both print and broadcast – the institutional memory required in the newsroom for quality reporting and analysis.