A new round of retrenchment is looming at the Nation Media Group with the merger of departments and scrapping of others.
People familiar with the new developments at the region’s biggest media house by market share and revenues say the digital department, which produces and markets the digital versions of Nation newspapers and TV content, has been dissolved and its sections merged with relevant others in the company.
Among the changes include technical staff – who include web designers and developers – being merged with IT. Content creators for the web and digital platforms will join Nairobi News online, the remnant of the Nairobi News newspaper that was shut a few months ago, while a section of them will remain in the Daily Nation Editorial section to handle the online portal, ww.nation.co.ke.
The digital sales team will now to report to advertising for both TV and Print. The fate of digital General Manager Agastee Khante and Digital Managing Editor Churchill Otieno’s remains unknown. They are said to be now in a newly created department known as Research and Development.
Tension is high at the Nation Centre, which houses the company’s offices, as it is believed that some employees in the restructured departments will be offloaded in the near future. The move comes barely a month after the company laid off over 10 staff, including journalists.
Daily Nation editorial staff who left before last Christmas include Jobs section editor Elly Wamari, writers Benjamin Muindi and Caroline Njeri Mucai as well as Saturday Nation’s literary writer, Kingwa Kamencu, who unsuccessfully tried to vie for the presidency in the last election on a weird platform of opposing wearing of panties among women.
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