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AFCON 2023 broadcast rights
SPORTS

Winners in the Scramble for AFCON Broadcast Rights

The Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”) on 10th January 2023 announced the conclusion of extensive global broadcast agreements with TV-Broadcasting Rights Holders for...

BBC plans on scrapping African genre TV programming in English including Business, Sport, Health, Children's, She Word, The Breakdown and Kenya Connects. [Photo/ BBC]
BUSINESSMEDIA

Kenyan Journalists Affected as BBC Cuts 400 Jobs

The BBC World Service will continue to operate in all the languages and countries where it is currently present, including the new languages...

POLITICS

Handshake Loading: Raila To Work With President Ruto With New Job Description

President William Ruto has indicated that he will be offering former Prime Minister Raila Odinga a yet-to-be identified state role in his government. 

BUSINESSMEDIA

BBC Planned 1,000 Staff Layoff Stirs Anxiety At Nairobi Bureau

In the current restructuring, regional TV news programmes in Oxford and Cambridge are also among the services being scrapped merging with the BBC’s...

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MEDIA

BBC Finds a Permanent Replacement For Larry Madowo

BBC, the global broadcaster, has finally found a permanent replacement for Larry Madowo, who left the company to join its rival CNN. Last...

CNN's new Nairobi correspondent Larry Madowo. He left his position as North America correspondent for BBC to return to Nairobi where his career began. [Photo/ BizCommunity]
CAREERSMEDIA

How I Landed CNN Job – Larry Madowo Reveals

"It’s easy to criticise other journalists’ African reporting from the comforts of America, but I chose to come back, so the audience can...

Larry Madowo Joins CNN
MEDIA

Larry Madowo Returns To Nairobi as CNN Correspondent

Madowo most recently served as the BBC’s North America Correspondent in Washington, D.C., covering major U.S. news stories including the Covid-19 outbreak, the...

Larry Madowo Post at BBC www.businesstoday.co.ke
MEDIA

Larry Madowo Quits Big BBC Africa Job to Stay in the US

Madowo resigned his Africa Business Editor position to take up a new role as United States (US) correspondent for the broadcaster.

BBC nairobi office www.businesstoday.co.ke
MEDIA

BBC Nairobi Bureau to Fire Staff, Including Presenters

The regional bureau in Nairobi has been in operation since 1995. It was expanded in 2018, backed with a hiring spree.