Nation Media Group (NMG) journalists stole the present on Friday evening through the Media Council of Kenya’s annual awards, having at the very least one winner in 11 of the 18 aggressive classes.
On the 12th version of the council’s Annual Journalism Excellence Awards (Ajea) held in Nairobi, tales printed on varied NMG platforms between February 1, 2023, and January 31, 2024, shone brightly.
Underneath every of the 18 classes, the Media Council of Kenya (MCK) awarded prizes in radio, TV, print, and digital sub-categories. NMG journalists dominated in varied print, TV and digital sub-categories.
NMG Editor-in-Chief Joe Ageyo, who was additionally among the many award presenters through the occasion, mentioned he was happy with the media home’s feat.
“The sensible efficiency of the NMG crew on the AJEA awards is a ringing endorsement of our audience-centred journalism. That our journalists gained in almost 70 % of the classes and throughout platforms is proof that NMG’s pivot in direction of new methods of storytelling is paying off.
“The awards encourage us to proceed telling the tales that matter as we develop our attain into the quick evolving digital content material panorama,” mentioned Mr Ageyo.
NMG Group Managing Editor, Ms Pamella Sittoni, additionally congratulated all of the winners.
“We’re extraordinarily happy with all our winners, our runners up and all these whose work was nominated for the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards. As soon as once more, we have now despatched out a transparent message that excellence reigns at Nation Media Group.
“I’m particularly happy with our youthful winners. Our journalism is in secure palms. We really rejoice them!,” mentioned Ms Sittoni.
On the awards, NMG obtained particular reward from Ms Judy Kaberia, who chaired the 2024 Ajea judges’ panel.
“Particularly in print, well being, gender, setting, (winners) have been from one single media home. The competitors was amongst journalists working for a similar newspaper. Some classes have been dominated by this media home and in some cases, solely their tales have been entered in sure classes.
“It was so troublesome even once we tried to do the moderation one of the best that we may do. It was nonetheless troublesome to displace this media home,” mentioned Ms Kaberia.
“We beg with this query: what methods does this media home make use of to keep up such a excessive stage of competitors?” she posed.
With out mentioning names, she additionally fingered a neighborhood day by day that she mentioned registered a marked drop within the high quality of its tales.
“We couldn’t ignore a troubling decline in story high quality from one of many newspapers that previously was among the many high. Is it leaning in direction of public relations? Is it worry of intimidation? What has occurred to this particular newspaper?” she questioned.
Well being reporter Hellen Shikanda was the one NMG journalist to emerge tops in two classes— Greatest Investigative Story (print) and well being and medical Reporting (Print). The tales that gained her the honours are her digging up of the contamination that brought about deaths at Mukumu Women and one other on a child born deaf who was given the facility to listen to.
Nation Media Group Editor in Chief Joe Ageyo (proper) offers an award to Nation Media Group Well being Reporter Hellen Shikanda after successful finest investigative story within the print class through the twelfth Annual Journalism Excellence Awards (AJEA) 2024 on the Edge Conference Centre in Nairobi on Could 3, 2024.
Photograph credit score: Boniface Bogita| Nation Media Group
Nation Media Group’s Public Editor, Mr Peter Mwaura, was amongst 4 senior journalists who obtained the Lifetime Achievement Award. Others are Wambui Kiai, Elizabeth Obege, Ali Salim Mmanga.
Cape Media’s Elizabeth Ochieng was named the journalist of the yr.
She had earlier gained within the Well being and Medical Reporting (TV) class.
Legal professional-Common Justin Muturi, who was the chief visitor on the occasion, referred to as for the upholding of moral journalism.
“Allow us to proceed to amplify the voices of the unvoiced, maintain these in energy to account whereas championing the ideas of moral journalism and uphold the important position of the media in our society,” he mentioned.
CATEGORIES WHERE NMG JOURNALISTS WON
1. Agriculture and Meals Safety
2. Greatest Investigative Story
- (TV) Ngina Kirori, Alex Oeba, Louis Ngari
- (Print) Hellen Shikanda
3. Breaking Information Reporting
- (TV) Kenneth Rutto
- (Digital) Daniel Ogetta
4. Growth and Public Affairs Reporting
- (Print) Mercy Koskei, Fred Kibor
- (Digital) Moraa Obiria
5.Digital Superhighway and Innovation Reporting
- (Print) Angela Oketch
- (Digital) Amina Mbuthia
6. Atmosphere and Local weather Change Reporting
- (Print) Mkamburi Mwawasi
- (Digital) Ruth Sarmwei, Jesse Chenge
- (Print) Ibrahim Karanja, Mercy Chelangat
9. Well being and Medical Reporting
10. Illustrator of the yr
11. Greatest Tv Manufacturing
- Smriti Vidyarthi, Jane Gatwiri, Robert Gichira
