County correspondents taking journalism to the dogs

In what I consider to be another lifetime achievement, I worked as a public relations officer (PRO) for a hospital in Meru. It was one of those drab jobs where you look for the good in our health sector and try putting it in the newspapers to please your employer.

Being a trained journalist, I lived in constant embarrassment with the echo of the words of veteran journalist Phillip Ochieng’, who said that "public relations is intellectually unrewarding", always ringing in my head.