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Website. the-star.co.ke. The Star is a daily newspaper published in Nairobi, Kenya. It was launched in July 2007 as the Nairobi Star and later rebranded as The Star in 2009. The Star' s circulation was around 15,000–20,000 in 2010 (against total Kenyan newspaper circulation in 2010 of around 320,000), compared to 5,000–8,000 in 2007. [1]
Mass media in Kenya includes more than 91 FM stations, more than 64 free to view TV stations, and an unconfirmed number of print newspapers and magazines. Publications mainly use English as their primary language of communication, with some media houses employing Swahili. Vernacular or community-based languages are commonly used in broadcast media; mostly radio.
External links Karen Fung, African Studies Association (ed.). "News (by country): Kenya". Africa South of the Sahara. USA – via Stanford University. Annotated directory "Kenya Indexing Project". Nairobi. Archived from the original on 2014-09-20. Retrieved 2020-03-11. Index of the articles published in Nairobi newspapers since 1980 "Newspapers Held in Microform: Kenya" (PDF). Cooperative ...
The attack has been described as one of the worst acts of terrorism in Kenya since the bombing of the U.S. embassy in 1998. [77] President Uhuru Kenyatta said on national television that Kenya had "overcome terrorist attacks before" and vowed to "hunt down the perpetrators wherever they run". [89]
Biography James Murua was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. [6] He made his debut as a blogger in 2009 with a (now defunct) blog called Nairobiliving.com, [7] and went on to work for The Star newspaper, serving for five years as editor and as a columnist for nine, being voted "Columnist of the Year" in 2009. [8] He has also contributed to Management Magazine (Kenya), The Daily Nation (Kenya ...
The Standard is one of the largest newspapers in Kenya with a 48% market share. It is the oldest newspaper in the country and is owned by The Standard Group, which also runs the Kenya Television Network (KTN), Radio Maisha, The Nairobian (a weekly tabloid), KTN News and Standard Digital which is its online platform. The Standard Group is headquartered on Mombasa Road, Nairobi, having moved ...
The corporation was launched as a radio service in 1928 when Kenya was a British colony, making it the first radio station in Kenya. The radio station was launched as the East African Broadcasting Corporation (EABC) which relayed BBC News. In 1964, when Kenya became independent, and the corporation's name was changed to Voice of Kenya.
The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by former editor of the British News Chronicle ...