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Why Uhuru Kenyatta Has Shut Down 32-Year-Old People Daily Newspaper
The People Daily, the ad-supported free newspaper for 10 years, has been shut down, as effects of low advertising continue to pummel the...
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Reeling Under Losses, Standard Group to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees
Standard Group, which owns Standard newspaper and KTN, plans to lay off hundreds of employees as part of restructuring to keep it in...
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Pamela Sittoni: Soft-Spoken Journalist Who Keeps Shattering Glass Ceilings
For Pamela Sittoni, journalism just flows. If you woke her up in the middle of the night, she would easily write a news...
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Big Names Moved As Standard Group Reorganises Its Newsroom
The Standard Media Group (SMG) has announced changes in its newsroom in a restructuring move that will see big names in the editorial...
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In Battle For Media Talent, Small Players Likely To Feel More Pain
Media houses have started shopping around for journalists to boost election reporting teams ahead of August 2022 transitional polls. Already mainstream media companies...
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Turmoil as Standard Slaps Its Journalists With Social Media Gag
Tension is brewing up at Standard Group after the media house updated its editorial policy to accommodate the rising influence of social media...
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Standard Issues Another Redundancy Notice After April Pay Cut
Two weeks after the Standard Group unveiled its COVID-19 survival strategy that entailed pay cuts and wage deferrals for different sets of staff,...
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Interesting Trends in Newspaper Readership in Kenya
The next time you pick up a newspaper to read, just know you are part of a shrinking tribe of people consuming newsprint...
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Tony Ngare, journalist who died in air crash, mourned as defender of media freedom
Former Standard senior writer at The Standard, who was among 32 Kenyans who perished when a Boeing 737 Max 8 came down on...
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