Experience

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  Moi university

  Jan 2010 - Mar 2012

  • Selecting stories for broadcast, researching, writing and gathering newscast content; • Evaluating news leads and news tips to develop story ideas for production; • Providing newsroom leadership and producing radio programmes; • Booking assignments and maintaining extensive community contacts and awareness of local and national current events; Programme host - The Breakfast Show, Comrades to Watch and Touchline;• Researching for programmes and talk shows and presenting them among other duties. Show less

  • Editor – Info Times Magazine

    Jan 2012 - Mar 2012

  • News Reporter and Editor

    Jan 2010 - Mar 2012
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  Air travel and related studies centre

  May 2010 - Jul 2010

  Intern

  • Tutoring Computer Packages,• Database Creation and Maintenance, • Installing drives and PC maintenance, and, • Connecting and maintaining Local Area Networks.

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  Government of kenya

  May 2011 - Jul 2011

  Intern

  • Computer and printer repair and maintenance; • Installation of new computers and printers; • Inspection of new computers, monitors and printers against specifications; and• Gathering departmental information and creating data flows among other assigned duties.

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  Nation media group

  Apr 2012 - Mar 2017

  Senior reporter (health and science) - ntv and daily nation newspaper

  • News reporting • Copy writing and editing • Features production for TV, Radio and Newspapers• Data analysis and presentation for news production (TV and Newspapers) • Conducting interviews and identifying potential interviewees among other assigned duties. Achievements so far• Winner of TV Reporter of the Year - Gender Reporting Category, at the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards May 2016 by Media Council of Kenya;• United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists Fellow 2015 http://www.unjournalismfellowship.org/recipients-header/2015-recipients• National Geographic (NATGEO) Photography Fellow Kenya 2014• Data Journalism Fellow, Internews 2013• Winner of Consumer Media Award for Best Health, Food and Drugs Category (Broadcast) in 2014 (UNFPA/KEMEP)• Winner of Population and Development Award for Best Print Writer in 2014 (UNFPA/Kenya Media Network)• Winner of Population and Development Award for Overall Best Journalist in 2014 (UNFPA/Kenya Media Network)• Recognised by Nation Media Group as best performing employee in broadcast division in 2014 and 2015 consecutively• Runners up of Media Council of Kenya awards in Health Category in 2015• Recognised during the World Economic Forum in Davos for Data Stories with Impact in 2015• Covered the 47th Session for the Commission on Population and Development held from 7-11 April 2014 in New York, USA; and• Produced, scripted over 20 long form features stories on Maternal and Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Population, Youth and Women Empowerment and Development for broadcast on NTV and Publishing in the Daily Nation Newspaper Show less

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  Bbc

  Mar 2017 - Jan 2018

  Broadcast journalist

  - Digital video storytelling - Research, storyboard and production of news stories- News and features production for BBC Radio- Re-version of BBC material in Swahili and English with a mobile audience in mind- Use pictures and graphics to illustrate and explain fast-moving events and complex stories

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  Bbc news

  Jan 2018 - now

  Senior bilingual reporter

  Global Journalist covering international news with a focus on current affairs, post-conflict societies, climate change, human and women rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.