MEDIA

The financial situation at Standard Group is getting dire by the week. While employees are getting used to salary delays, the reality is beginning to sink in: day by day they are getting broke and broke.

DStv customers can still watch content on higher package with an extended and boosted Step Up offer.

Even with the end of the festive season and the setting in of the new year responsibilities, GOtv customers still have reason to celebrate as more entertainment comes their way.

After watching in silence for a long time, the Media Council of Kenya (MCK) is moving to address the ever-presence nuisance of people masquerading as journalists who throng news events, giving journalism a bad name.

Jiffy Pictures was established by Lulu Hassan and Rashid Abdallah, one of Kenya's well-known media couples, in 2016.

Her personality and charm endeared her to listeners - especially young people, during her early stint on Homeboyz Radio. When Standard Group announced the launch of Vybez, an all-Reggae and Dancehall station in Kenya in 2019, she was unveiled as host of the morning show.

Mr Joel Chacha, the general manager and chief strategist at Tell-Em, has been announced as a judge for the annual PRWeek Global Awards. The awards honour the best in public relations, marketing, and communications and are among the most prestigious in the industry. 

Standard is undertaking a restructuring exercise that has seen numerous journalists hand in their resignations even as others are fired as part of cost-cutting efforts.

William Oeri, the man who switched careers from the army to journalism and took some of the most iconic photographs at Nation Media Group, has perished in a roach accident.

In a short tribute posted on her Facebook page, Ms Damaris Kemunto Nyabuti, recalled how her father said goodbye to various family members discreetly as if he knew he was going to die.