Mwenda Njoka Explained

Mwenda Njoka is a Kenyan investigative journalist and winner of CNN Journalist of the Year Award.^[1] He was one of the seventeen finalists of the 2004 CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition Launched under Sunday Nation/Daily Nation of Kenya in 2004.^[2] He is also winner of Kalasha Film & TV Award^[3] for his work on the documentary on the late JM Kariuki, a populist Kenyan legislator assassinated under mysterious circumstances in 1975. Njoka is also the founder of non-profit media development organization; Africa Centre for Investigative Journalism (ACIJ).^[4] Currently working with Royal Media Services and is behind the Citizen TV Sunday Live news program "Who Owns Kenya".^[5] He has previously worked with the Standard Newspapers where he won the 2003 Journalist of the Year award under the auspices of Kenya Union of Journalists, Nation Media Group.

External links

• Kenya Union of Journalists, Nairobi
• Nation Media Group
• The Standard for Fairness and Justice
• Royal Media Services

Notes and References

1. International Edition (2004-06-20). Peter Murimi named CNN African Journalist of the Year. The CNN Website, retrieved 14 August 2011
2. US Edition (2004-05-10). 2004 CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition Launched. The CNN Website, retrieved 12 October 2011
3. Film Awards (2009-07-01). Kalasha Award Winners 09 . Nairobi Living, retrieved 14 August 2011
4. http://africacentreforinvestigativejournalism.org/ retrieved 14 August 2011
5. Suhayll99 (2010-09-05). Wananchi Group on Citizen TV. Youtube, retrieved 19 August 2011