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The rise, fall... and rise again? of Kenyan media

Last weekend, I was invited to a virtual meeting by my former students, all now practising journalists, in early stages of their career. They wanted to discuss the state of Kenyan media and their place in it. They were worried about redundancy notices, retrenchment or whatever management terms used to explain the premature termination of services. So far, almost all major media houses have announced such measures.

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