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April 11, 2012
15:33
Veteran ex-BBC Man, Gray Phombeah, Takes Charge Of Mombasa Radio, Eyes Region Domination
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JACKAL NEWS – It doesn’t matter who you work for as long as you live your reputation as a journalist, and this the mantra former BBC journalist Gray Phombeah who is now the editorial director of the Mombasa-based Pilipili FM.
April 10, 2012
17:44
Media Monitor Sacking Highlights Kenya Media Regulator’s Weakness, Infighting
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JACKAL NEWS – In an unbridled display of impunity, state-funded Media Council of Kenya (MCK) has “illegally” sacked one of its most experienced media monitors under dubious circumstance.
15:15
Someone Has Been Taking KBC's Ksh 8 Million Tea; If It Is Not Corruption, Then What Is?
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JACKAL NEWS - A well-fed dog, or probably a cat, has been taking several cups of tea meant for about 1,000 staff members of the state broadcaster, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, every day.
April 09, 2012
14:53
Certified Big Mouth, Occasional Jailbird Dennis Itumbi Set To Curdle BloodBanks On The Bench
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JACKAL NEWS – The British High Commissioner in Nairobi, the National Security Intelligence Agency and the Demons of Darkness will be watching K24 Television Monday night, looking out for what Blogger Dennis Itumbi will not say.
April 05, 2012
17:17
Sad Tale How KTN Lost Lucrative “Cheche” Talk-Show Proposal To Citizen TV
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JACKAL NEWS – Loss-making Kenya Television Network (KTN) delayed a lucrative proposal to implement a Meet The Press talk show, until the same proposal was leaked to the flourishing Citizen TV, where it was this week launched as Cheche, (Spark) sources told the Jackal News.
12:20
KBC Staff Quit Chief-Betrayer Communication Workers Union, Working To Join KUJ
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JACKAL NEWS - Frustrated but determined Kenya Broadcasting Corporation employees have resolved to migrate from the slippery Communication Workers Union (CWU), an organisation that betrayed them and possibly join Kenya Union of Journalists, sources told the Jackal News.
April 04, 2012
18:23
KBC Managers Issue Damning Censorship Order To Hide Ugly Image, Escalating Bloodbath
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Management has issued a gag order against its journalist and staff from giving any information pertaining to the ongoing problem on maladministration and incompetence in the Corporation, according to a circular obtained by the Jackal News.
14:49
KBC Staff Fire Off Potentially Devastating Letter To MD Waithaka Waihenya, Information Ministry
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JACKAL NEWS – In a sign of escalating bad blood in Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), hundreds of staff members wrote a letter to managing director Waithaka Waihenya, demanding at Ksh 540 million in unpaid salaries and allowances held in areas, lest they issue another strike notice or move to court.
12:11
Nation Media Group Ordered To Pay Ex-National Bank Secretary Ksh 400,000 For Defamation
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenyan media regulator has ordered Nation Media Group (NMG) to pay a former National Bank of Kenya (NBK) employee Ksh 400,000 after its investigative editor defamed him in two stories then refused to retract and apologize, according to documents seen by the Jackal News.
April 03, 2012
15:00
KBC Staff Members In Fresh Plot To Paralyse Broadcaster Over Unpaid Salaries And Arrears
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting staff members have met to discuss fresh ways of pressing the management to pay them more than Ksh 500 million in unpaid salaries and allowances, sources told the Jackal News.
14:39
Royal Media Services (RMS) Staff Complain Health Insurance Scheme The Worst, Plead For Action
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JACKAL NEWS – Employees of the Royal Media Services (RMS) are complaining that the management gives them one of the worst health insurance schemes, prompting some sick employees to seek hand-outs, sources have told the Jackal News.
March 27, 2012
16:39
Panic Rocks Standard Group As Managers Invite Performance Auditors
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JACKAL NEWS – Panic and confusion has rocked the Standard Group after managers invited so-called experts to audit the “passion and determination” of employees in the Mombasa Road-based media giant, sources told the Jackal News.
15:42
Kenya’s Parliamentary Panel Horrified By KBC “Shocking” State Of Affairs
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JACKAL NEWS – Stung by noisy calls for reform, a parliamentary panel has toured the state-owned Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and was horrified by the shocking state of affairs and working conditions in the failing broadcaster, sources told the Jackal News.
March 26, 2012
12:23
UPDATE 7: Journalist Dennis Itumbi Released Without Charge
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenyan police have released journalist Dennis Itumbi without charge for allegedly hacking into the website of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to access confidential information, sources told the Jackal News.
March 25, 2012
23:28
Crisis Looms As Experienced KBC News Directors/Producers Join Labour Flight
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) news department is set to plunge into a real crisis if the remaining directors and producers are poached away and there are indications that they will flee, sources told the Jackal News.
21:10
Royal Media Services (RMS) Blocks Jackal News From Its Computer Network
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JACKAL NEWS – Sources complain that Royal Media Services (RMS) has blocked the staffers from accessing the Jackal News from their office work stations in what appears to be a rudimentary restriction of frees of information.
March 23, 2012
2:03
Police Arrest Journalist Itumbi Over ‘‘Classiffied Documents’’
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JACKAL NEWS - Journalist and blogger Dennis Itumbi has been arrested by the Kenya police investigating the origin of a document claiming that the British government was pushing for the indictment of President Kibaki by the International Criminal Court.
March 22, 2012
16:39
Newly-Empowered KBC Employees Plot New Strike Over “Illegal” Demotions
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JACKAL NEWS – Hundreds of Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) staff members are planning a fresh strike if the management implements a self-destructive decision to demote them, sources told the Jackal News.
14:09
Exiled Somali Journalist Hassan Mohamed Dies In Kenyan Capital
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JACKAL NEWS - Veteran Somali radio journalist Hassan Mohamed, 45, has died in Eastleigh, a Nairobi suburb. He had fled Mogadishu in 2010, having been threatened, kidnapped, and shot twice.
March 21, 2012
11:23
Nairobi Law Monthly, Publisher Ahmednassir Abdullahi Ordered To Pay Miguna Miguna Ksh 1.4 Million And Apologise
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JACKAL NEWS – State-funded Media Council of Kenya (MCK) has ordered Nairobi Law Monthly and its publisher, lawyer Ahmednassir Abdullahi to pay maverick lawyer Miguna Miguna some Ksh 1.4 million and apologise for portraying in bad light, according to documents seen by the Jackal News.
March 19, 2012
10:01
Journalist Itumbi Seeks Apology From Blogger Alai Over ICC Document
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JACKAL NEWS - Journalist Dennis Itumbi has filed a formal complaint against blogger Robert Alai, threatening to sue him for alleged defamation in a dramatic development relating to the combustive document claiming that the British Government is seeking the prosecution of President Kibaki over the 2008 violence.

Through lawyer Chelanga and Company Advocates, Itumbi has written to Alai demanding that he apologize for allegedly linking him to the development of the document that has since been tabled in parliament.

The document in question alleges that the UK is conspiring to have Kibaki indicted by the International Criminal Court over the deadly 2008 violence which started when he was declared winner of the 2007 elections, which Prime Minister Raila Odinga said was stolen. HM's government has dismissed the document saying it was part of a smear campaign aimed at destabilising relations between Britain and Kenya.

Itumbi's lawyer told said in the letter to Alai that the blogger published, between 10 and 14 March 2012, on Twitter and Facebook, the following words, ''Fake ICC letter authored by Dennis Itumbi'', among others.

''It was within your knowledge that the above offending words are false, and meant calculated to disparage and injure our client's credit'', the lawyer said. They added that the words we meant to potray Itumbi as a ''forgerer'', among other elements.

On Itumbi's behalf, the lawyer is demanding the following from Alai: ''An admission of liability for false and malicious publicalication of the aforestated offending words.

''Removal of the offending posts from your Facebook and Twitter account (s)

''Issuance of an appropriate apology to our client to be published in the same media, the text of which we shall approve prior to such publication.''

The lawyer warned that if the demands are not met within seven days, then he will ''institute proceedings'' for defamation and malicious falsehood.

The letter indicates that the initial copy of the letter, dated March 16, was being sent to Alai via e-mail. The Jackal News has not gotten indication that Alai has received the letter.
March 18, 2012
20:54
Seven KBC News Directors Quit in Depressing Labour Flight
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JACKAL NEWS - Seven news directors with the state broadcaster, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, have fled the low-paying company for better pay in rival media organizations, a Jackal News source has said, sapping much-needed talent from the poorly managed firm, weeks after a crippling strike brought hope of reforms.

''Monica Kiragu is among the seven TV producers/journalists who have left the company for jobs elsewhere,'' a source told the Jackal News, indicating that Kiragu was heading for Citizen Television. ''Others are joining NTV Television and other firms.''

The team that is leaving has been primarily working with Channel 1 Television, mostly directing news and also undertaking other responsibilities.

The latest KBC staff flight will put more pressure of the company which is largely seen as a training ground for the media industry in the country, even by the admission of the top technocrat in the Ministry of Information.

''KBC has been the training ground for the industry and to some extent literally undermined by competition. It is weighed down by legacy issues be it in technology or labour force. We are dealing with the structure and technology first. The labour issue is complex,'' Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo recently wrote on an online forum.

Ndemo was taking part in a discussion about the fate of KBC, days after hundreds of staff went on strike for five days from 29 February, demanding better pay and a massive raft of reforms.

They agreed to resume work after the government pledged to look into their grievances.

Meanwhile, to celebrate, staff members are organizing a party on March 24 to toast to the success of the work boycott and the hope that their problems would be sorted.

''The Jackal News (website) staff have been invited, as appreciation for their work in following through the story from the start to the point the strike was called off,'' a source involved in organizing the party said.

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March 15, 2012
14:44
Brutal Blogger Itumbi Sues Rival Over Combustive ''UK'', ICC Document
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JACKAL NEWS - The ferocious Kenyan journalist and blogger, Dennis Itumbi, is moving to court to seek millions of shillings in damages from a prominent technology blogger who allegedly linked him to repugnant grammatical mistakes in a document that has sparked diplomatic row between London and Nairobi.
March 12, 2012
20:10
Jackal News Editor Quoted In Pathological CNN Coverage Of Kenya Grenade Attack
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JACKAL NEWS - Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. On Saturday the scorned woman was Kenya and the culprit was the Cable News Network (CNN), the US cable news channel. On Saturday night, there was a grenade explosion at a busy bus station in Nairobi that killed six people and injured about 63 others - according to latest media reports.
16:39
CNN Retreats Amid Firestorm Over Kenyan Violence Gaffe
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JACKAL NEWS - CNN International has pulled down a distressing video report on a deadly blast in the Kenyan capital, amid blistering rage from an informed online community, but shinning spotlight on the network's embarrassing stereotyped reporting of Africa.
March 11, 2012
19:11
CNN Retreats After Virulent Online Debate On Kenya Violence Blunder
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JACKAL NEWS - CNN International has pulled down a distressing video report on a deadly blast in the Kenyan capital, amid blistering rage from an informed online community, but shinning spotlight on the network's embarrassing stereotyped reporting of Africa.
18:38
Citizen TV Journalist Michael Mongare Beats Up Colleague Over Bribe
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JACKAL NEWS – Citizen TV journalist Michael Mong'are recently beat up a freelance journalist known as Mosota outside a supermarket in Kisii over a bribe they had been given by World Vision to cover a story, sources told the Jackal News.
March 01, 2012
20:40
KBC IT Manager Ayub Ambira Linked To Graft Over Computer/Software Procurement Scandal
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) Information Technology (IT) Manager Ayub Imbira has been linked to a graft over the procurement of computers and counterfeit Microsoft software.
February 29, 2012
19:18
EXCLUSIVE: How KBC Board Favoured Waithaka Waihenya And Named Him Managing Director
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) MD Waithaka Waihenya did not qualify for his current job to head the state corporation, where employees have gone on strike demanding reforms , but was "pushed or sneaked in" by the corporation’s board of directors contrary to the procedures, sources told the Jackal News.
17:18
Fast-Sinking KBC Managing Director Waithaka Waihenya Threatens To Sack Staff, Defies Government Order
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JACKAL NEWS – Fast-sinking Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) managing director has threatened to sack all the employees on strike if they do not resume work on Thursday morning, sources said, in direct and perhaps misadvised contradiction to a pledge by Deputy Information Minister George Khaniri that nobody would be intimidated.
16:53
S. K. Macharia Poaches Entire KBC Maasai Radio Staff To Start His Own
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JACKAL NEWS – Samuel Kamau Macharia, the ruthless and very rich owner of Royal Media Services has poached the entire staff and casuals of Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC)’s Maasai radio, Nosim FM, to start his own Maasai radio channel in his media empire, sources told the Jackal News.
13:25
It’s “Britney Spears” Instead Of “National Exams” As KBC News Grounded By Staff Strike
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JACKAL NEWS – State-funded Kenya Broadcasting Corporation has failed to air its 1 PM news bulletin for the first time in three decades, missing one of the biggest stories in the country owing to a devastating strike pushing for reforms in the giant.
9:40
Government-owned KBC Nearly Grounds To A Halt As Employees Down Tools Demanding Reforms
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JACKAL NEWS – In a rare show of mighty, hundreds of Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) employees went on strike demanding a raft of reforms in the hapless state corporation, sources told the Jackal News, as the station headquarters was ringed by paramilitary police.
February 28, 2012
17:09
KBC’s Chief Waithaka Waihenya Declares Staff Strike Illegal, Setting Stage For Power Struggle
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JACKAL NEWS – Paranoid Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) managing director Waithaka Waihenya has announced that the staff strike slated for February 29 (Wednesday) is illegal, according to an internal memo, as parliament took the matter that may turn tables on the KBC managers.
14:39
Stranded Citizen Radio/TV Crew Starving In Lamu After Eviction From Military Base
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JACKAL NEWS – A Citizen Television and Radio crew that recently returned from the covering war sweltering Somalia, is now starving and stranded in the Kenyan coastal town of Lamu, abandoned by the military and their newsroom, several sources told the Jackal News.
February 27, 2012
16:15
Strike-Hungry KBC Staff Halt Reform Talks As Government Disses Management
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JACKAL NEWS – The employees of Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), where the devil lives, have officially cut talks with the management as they prepare for the February 29 strike to demand for reforms, sources the Jackal News as it emerged that managing director Withaka Waihenya has hit a rock-bottom in his efforts to seek funds.
13:38
Horror Of Massive Salary Discrepancies At Standard Group Exposed
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JACKAL NEWS – Standard Group employees’ (April 2011) payroll has been leaked, exposing a horror in salary discrepancies in the Mombasa Road-based media giant, notably earnings in the editorial staff where the hard working reporters and cameramen are paid close to nothing while the fat dogs on the top take home all the cash, according to controversial Citizen Weekly.
February 26, 2012
14:51
Thanks To Jackal News, Kenyan Government Thwarts “NMG/RMS” Bid To Hijack Crucial Media Bills
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JACKAL NEWS – In response to Jackal News exclusive, the Kenyan government has thwarted a stealth attempt by the Nation Media Group (NMG) and Royal Media Services (RMS) to hijack and redraft the crucial two media bills in what sources told the Jackal News “was an attempt to serve their interests.”
February 23, 2012
9:39
K24 TV Stole “Property Weekly” Show down Enterprising Young Producers: Sources
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JACKAL NEWS – Upcoming Kenyan production company, Mediavision, has accused the foundering K24 television of stealing its idea and developing it into what became “Property Weekly”, TV programme broadbast every Monday, a severely disingenuous move that has robbed young talents the ability to prosper, sources told the Jackal News.
February 22, 2012
18:16
Reluctantly, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Employees Postpone Strike For A Week
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) employees have reluctantly postponed a strike slated for Thursday after the management request for more time to hold talks with the information ministry over unpaid staff salaries and allowances amounting to hundreds of millions of shillings and the fate of casuals who have been mistreated for decades, sources told the Jackal News.
13:04
UPDATED: As Jackal Predicted, Media Council Clears Boss, Instructed To Lunch over “Domestic Problems” With Chairman
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JACKAL NEWS – The Board of the state-funded Media Council of Kenya (MCK) has cleared its Executive Director Haron Mwangi and wrongfully implicated him of leaking information to the Jackal News, sources told the Jackal News.
8:02
Media Council of Kenya To Clear Director, May Discipline Wayward Board Chairman
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JACKAL NEWS – The board of the state-funded Media Council of Kenya (MCK) is meeting to clear its Executive Director Haron Mwangi of any wrongdoing, sources told the Jackal News, but may seek turn tables against board Chairman Levy Obonyo.
February 21, 2012
18:16
KBC’s Waithaka Waihenya Says: “I Will Never Be Sacked” Sneering Staff Reject Offer, Vow Killer Strike
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Chief Waithaka Waihenya reportedly said Civil Service chief is his personal friend who will never sack him from the troubled station where employees are going on strike on Thursday, sources told Jackal News.
16:12
TV Badboy Louis Otieno Pleads Innocence Over Girlfriend’s Murder
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JACKAL NEWS - Television bad boy, Louis Otieno, has denied any role in
the strangulation of his girlfriend Careen Chepchumba Kili, speaking in a press conference, minutes after Jackal News revealed that he had sex with her she was killed in her Nairobi apartment.
11:56
Biggest Demons Set Shop In KBC As Employees Vow To Strike This Week
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JACKAL NEWS – In a dramatic change of heart, employees of state-owned Kenya Broadcasting Corporation have vowed to down their tools on February 23 after the management reneged on a deal to implement the first of a series of reforms that would breathe new life to the ailing giant, sources told the Jackal News.
February 20, 2012
16:22
Confusion As Sub-Editors Stampede Out Of the Standard Group
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JACKAL NEWS - The mass exit of sub-editors at Standard Group looks be worsening every time. The Mombasa Road-based giant has in the past months been losing talent left, right and centre to other channels, especially the Chinese state-owned dragon, CCTV.
February 19, 2012
17:10
Senior Writer Philip Ochieng Passes Damning Assessment of Kenyan Journalists
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JACKAL NEWS - Columnist Philip Ochieng has accused Kenyan journalists of failing to master the English language while hiding under self-defeating excuses, in a sad newspaper commentary that is raising concerns over whether he is willing to continue writing his weekly piece correcting language mistakes in the media.
February 17, 2012
11:01
KBC Owes Employees Ksh 360 Million In Arrears As Rival Camps Plot Destruction
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JACKAL NEWS – You do not know this: The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) owes its employees some Ksh 360 million in arrears for unpaid salaries and allowances that resulted from unnecessary promotions over the past 12 months, sources told the Jackal News, as tension mounts between the warring camps.
February 15, 2012
13:35
Potentially Damaging Revolt Looming in Citizen Over Unfair Salary Hikes
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JACKAL NEWS – A fresh and potentially damaging revolt is looming at the Royal Media Services after the management selectively hiked salaries for a section of yes-men and left others out, sources told the Jackal News, explaining that the technical department has been left to languish and told to quit if they wish.
11:47
Tempers Flare As KBC In Fresh Strike Threat Over Withheld PS Meeting Minutes
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JACKAL NEWS - In their best interest, the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) employees will go on strike if the management withholds minutes in which Information PS Bitange Ndemo acceded to most of their demands, averting an earlier go slow that was slated for February 23, sources told the Jackal News.
February 13, 2012
15:51
New Demons Invade At KBC As Staff Demand Salaries/Allowances In Arrears Or Move To Court
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JACKAL NEWS – The increasingly besieged Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation is facing new financial mess as employees are set to demand hundreds of millions of shillings illegally held by the broadcaster for nearly a year, sources told the Jackal News, opening a new battled front.
February 10, 2012
16:30
Veteran TV Manager Alex Kobia Appointed New Al Jazeera Swahili Managing Director
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JACKAL NEWS – Veteran television manager Alex Kobia has been appointed the new Aljazeera Swahili Managing Director, beating many including his nemesis, NTV’s Sharleen Samat, sources told the Jackal News.
15:51
KBC Employees Calls Off Strike After Government Agrees To Massive Reforms, Pay Hike
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) staff members have called off a strike slated for February 23 after the government agreed to a raft of reforms that are to start immediately, sources told the Jackal News.
13:00
Panel Set To Clear Media Council of Kenya Chief Haron Mwangi Of Malpractice; Calls For Ceasefire
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JACKAL NEWS – A special panel created to probe Media Council of Kenya Executive Director Haron Mwangi for allegations of mismanagement is set to clear him of any wrongdoing, but urge him and his “enemies” in the government-funded body to work together, sources told the Jackal News.
February 09, 2012
17:30
US Rapper 50 Cent Tours Somalia, Kenya For Children’s Charity
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JACKAL NEWS - Fabulously rich American rapper 50 Cent is in Kenya for charity and he will not be performing anywhere in the country, sources told the Jackal News. This week, he was the war-tarred Somalia together with ABC TV journalist Dan Harris, before venturing into various drinking holes in the Kenyan capital.
15:28
iHub, Nokia Assault Kenyan Blogger in Nairobi Conference
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JACKAL NEWS -Loss-making Finnish phone maker Nokia forcefully dragged obdurate Kenyan blogger Robert Alai out of an event that was being attended by the firm's CEO, Stephen Elop, the centre that hosted the Nokia conference in Nairobi said.
February 07, 2012
17:08
Classic FM Explores Anal Sex In Explicit Chat As Gag Petition Peaks
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JACKAL NEWS - A supposedly married woman called Kenya’s explicit Classic FM radio to discuss how her husband now demands anal sex, in a shocking breakfast discussion that is shinning spotlight on media ethics and nascent sexual orientation.
February 06, 2012
14:19
Nigerian Songbird, Political Activist, Thrills, Disappoints Nairobi
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JACKAL NEWS – Sony-signed Nigerian singer-cum-political activist Nneka Egbuna brought her politically-charged hip-hop tunes to Nairobi over the weekend, attracting excited revellers but disappointing others.
13:34
Journalist Anatomize Albert Gachiri Sacking, Rot In Kenyan Newsrooms
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JACKAL NEWS - The ouster of Albert Gachiri from Nation Media Group (NMG) was just a matter of time. Gachiri, master of bizarre, sharp wit and humorous TV sign-offs, was guilty of committing several ''crimes'' like his former funny counterpart at KTN Boni Odinga.
February 05, 2012
18:14
NTV Editors Emmanuel Juma, Joe Ageyo Behind ''Death'' of Njenga Karume
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JACKAL NEWS – Jackal News can reveal that NTV editors Emmanuel Juma and Joe Ageyo called sacked journalist Albert Gachiri, instructed him announce the dead of former defence minister Njenga Karume, then abandoned him when it became clear that the information was a fluke, sources have said.
February 04, 2012
15:06
Pulse Editor Charles Otieno Was Very Rude Outside Java House, “Behaved Like Nancy Baraza”
» ‎ Jackal News

JACKAL NEWS – Hopelessly overrated Pulse Magazine editor, Charles Otieno abused security guards and Kenya police officers guarding Chris Kirubi’s International Life House after they requested him to stop obstructing the entire Mama Ngina Street, Jackal News witnessed the incident that puts the whole Standard Group to shame.
February 03, 2012
12:50
KBC’s Bid To “Divide And Rule,” Implodes As Employees Say: “No Amount Of Intimidation Can Cow US.”
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JACKAL NEWS – Attempts by Kenya Broadcasting Corporation top dogs, scared by the looming strike, to ‘divide and rule’ malnourished employees have imploded as they dismissed as “amorphous terrorists” people pushing for the strike, sources told the Jackal News.
February 02, 2012
18:40
Kenyan Singer Stella Mwangi's Father Killed In Norway Hit-And-Run Incident
» ‎ Jackal News

JACKAL NEWS – The father of Stella Mwangi (aka STL), who is based in Norway was this week killed in a hit-and-run incident that horrified his family and left fans mourning, sources told said. Police said they were probing the incident.
12:18
KBC Attempts, Fails To Demote Rebel Leader Vincent Lempaa Over Strike
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JACKAL NEWS –The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation attempted and failed to demote bold rebel Vincent Lempaa from a court reporter to general news correspondent, in a move to frustrate people who have been agitating far-reaching reforms at the sinking public broadcaster, sources told the Jackal News.
February 01, 2012
19:22
KBC’s Harrasment, Frustration Prompt Top Journalist Milton Nyakundi "The Renegade" To Resign
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JACKAL NEWS - Frustrations and harrasments have claimed their first casualty in the troubled Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) after top journalist, who led for a clamour for reforms in the failed state corporation resigned, piling more pressure on the government to take corrective measures, sources told the Jackal News.
18:40
Media Council of Kenya’s Probe Must Hold All Accountable, Could Ensnare Others: Experts
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JACKAL NEWS –The Media Council of Kenya (MCK) panel probing its Executive Director Haron Mwangi must probe two petitioners who accusing him of mischief, as part of a wider probe into the scandal threatening to scupper the man’s career and make the regulatory body impotent, experts and journalists told the Jackal News.
15:30
Fuming KUJ Warns KBC Managers Against Intimidation As Landmark Strike Looms
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JACKAL NEWS – The Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ) has warned the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation against intimidating employees pushing for reforms, its top official told the Jackal News, adding that the union would launch talks to avert a strike that could cripple the state broadcaster. It is now or never.

More than 350 KBC employees are set to down their tools on February 23 if the government fails to implement a raft of reforms including, a 500 percent salary hike, elevating the station from a statutory to a constitutional body as well as retiring unproductive and ageing managers and editors.

But the managers responded with fury, transferring chief "renegade", Milton Nyakundi and other "rebels" to Kisumu Bureau to cut them off. “Intimidation is not the way to go,” fumed KUJ Secretary General Jared Obuya. “We have got information that the management has started victimising some people whom it believes are behind the strike. That is not the way to go and as KUJ, we ask KBC to refrain from such acts that are not only detrimental to the corporation, but can end up messing up working relationships.”

“We have always believed whenever there is a trade dispute, dialogue is the only way forward. Since the concerns of the KBC employees are legitimate, we will meet the representative of the KBC staff for talks soon and then we will meet the management,” he told the Jackal News.

KUJ officials also said they would also take up the sports journalist Elynah Sifuna Shiveka’s case. She had been suspended from the state broadcaster on suspicion of spreading malicious SMS to the managers. The court vindicated her, but the management refused to reinstate her, until the industrial court intervened. Now, KBC managers have refused to give her back her job as the head of sports in what sources tell the Jackal News is “vengeance.”

Jackal News reporters paid a clandestine visit to the state broadcaster, launched in 1927 and by then regarded as the best in Africa, only to find its infrastructure rotten and morale low. Toilets were leaking and, oops, there was no water; the wooden block that houses the newsroom was in a shoddy state, without ventilation and fire fighting equipment.

In addition, a numerous number of reporters complained that they are underpaid. Artistes have been working without contracts and many said their colleagues are being fired needlessly. The newsroom is underequipped and even the computers were running on pirated software.

And, Obuya, talking about his visits abroad said: “I have travelled to several countries in the world, including South Africa and Ghana and I can assure you that state broadcasters there are among the best employers. But that is not the case in Kenya.”

Other sources told the Jackal News that KUJ was contemplating suing KBC for failing to live up to the expectations of the new constitution that recognises the station as a constitutional body, just like Central Bank of Kenya and Kenya Revenue Authority, among other issues.

Efforts to reach KBC chief Waithaka Waihenya, a former journalist, failed.

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January 31, 2012
18:48
Standard Group’s Union Members Wail: We Were Excluded From Pay Hikes, Management Disagrees
» ‎ Jackal News

JACKAL NEWS – Disgruntled members of the Kenyan Union of Journalists (KUJ) employed by the Standard Group are complaining that they were excluded from this week’s salary increments that saw others get Ksh 5000 hikes, sources told the Jackal News.
January 30, 2012
17:09
Kenyan Media Regulator Creates Panel To Probe Executive Director Of Alleged Malpractices
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JACKAL NEWS – The board of government-funded regulator Media Council of Kenya has appointed a special panel to investigate Executive Director Harum Mwangi for allegations of mismanagement that has plagues the body, sources told the Jackal News.
12:39
Citizen Editor Alex Chamwada Quits To Join Political Sycophancy
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JACKAL NEWS - The prolific Citizen Television associate editor, Alex Chamwada, is resigning from the firm to become the media spin doctor of a businessman seeking the post of governor for Nairobi County, a source has told The Jackal News.
January 26, 2012
13:50
With Strike Notice Out, KBC In Fresh Demand For Managers To Be Vetted
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JACKAL NEWS – JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting Corporation staff are demanding that everybody working for the state broadcaster, including the board members, be vetted to exterminate runaway incompetence behind the sinking of the firm, sources told the Jackal News.
13:27
Royal Media Services Double Revenue Target To A Billion; Scare Hell Out Of Sales Crew
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JACKAL NEWS – Top dogs in Kenyan behemoth Royal Media Services have scared the crap out of sales people by doubling their financial targets for 2012 to a reportedly a billion shillings, sources have told the Jackal News.
January 25, 2012
14:29
ICC-Indicted Kenyan Journalist Joshua Sang Ravaged, Perhaps Ruined Forever
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JACKAL NEWS - Joshua arap Sang is utterly devastated. His heart has sunk to the deepest abyss in his life, probably where depressesion is possible, hours after the International Criminal Court indicted him for crimes against humanity, colleagues have told Jackal News.
January 24, 2012
17:55
KBC To Spend Ksh 450 Million For New Equipment; Plans Retreat Amid Strike Threat
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, already knee-deep in a firestorm of staff protests, has set aside Ksh 450 million to buy new equipment and trucks in preparation for the 2013 general elections, sources told the Jackal News.
13:24
Disgruntled KBC Staff To Issue Strike Notice This Week, Want BBC-Style Broadcaster
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JACKAL NEWS – Fiercely determined Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) staff will this week issue the management a strike notice in protest to its pathological refusal to address a raft of complaints raised in a landmark memorandum issued on November 7, sources told the Jackal News.
January 23, 2012
18:01
Atlas Printers -- Dubai Money -- To Launch New Magazine For Kenyan Women This Year
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JACKAL NEWS – A new magazine focused on women’s health and wellness is set to launch before April this year, sources told the Jackal News, in what appears to be indirect competition to Carole Mandi’s seemingly struggling True Love magazine.
17:05
KBC Gives Staff 40 Percent Salary Increase; Waiting For Board To Approve
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JACKAL NEWS – State broadcaster Kenya Broadcasting Corporation has agreed to increase its despondent staff salaries by 40 percent, far less than the 500 percent they had demanded, sources told the Jackal News.
13:14
ICC Website Crashes As Million Await Ruling on Kenyan War Crimes Suspects
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JACKAL NEWS – International Criminal Court (ICC) website (icc-cpi.int) has crashed inconveniencing Kenyans who are following proceedings through the internet, the Jackal News can reveal.
January 19, 2012
20:11
Standard Newspaper Staff Up In Arms After KTN Staff Get Pay Hike Assurance
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JACKAL NEWS – Standard newspapers staff have reacted with fury and blood-letting after it emerged that the parent company, Standard Group, has promised to hike KTN staff salaries and give TV journalists dress allowance, sources told the Jackal News.
January 17, 2012
18:27
Ethnicity, Vengeance At KBC’s Move To Relocate Rebels To Counties
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JACKAL NEWS – Majority of the KBC staff who have been redeployed to the counties are from western Kenya, a hint that ethnicity and vengeance was key in the decision making process, sources told the Jackal News.
January 16, 2012
11:40
KBC’s Waithaka Waihenya Punishes Milton Naykundi For Dissent; Sends Him To Kisumu Bureau
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JACKAL NEWS – KBC managing director Waithaka Waihenya has sent chief rebel Milton Nyakundi to be the Kisumu Bureau Chief in order to stop dissent that is wrecking the country’s state broadcaster.
January 14, 2012
14:28
Why Miguna Miguna ‘Stopped’ Contributing To Star Newspaper And Other Funny Tales
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JACKAL NEWS – Vengeful lawyer Miguna Miguna was told to tone down on his criticism on Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, failure to which his columns will not be spiked, but he threw a tantrum and refused to write, telling friends that the Westlands-based daily had gagged him, sources told the Jackal News.
January 13, 2012
16:27
Cess Mutungi Is Reading “Dracula” So That Kenyans Must Live To Read Again
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JACKAL NEWS –The unusually adorable, dangerously influential and Shakespeare pseudo-scholar Capital FM motor-mouth, Cess Mutungi, can actually re-invent the reading culture in Kenya, the Jackal News can reveal, after she told co-presenter Macbul that she is reading Bram Stoker’s classic, Dracula.
January 12, 2012
15:43
CCTV Africa Takes Off In Kenya After Nearly Sinking Kenyan Channels
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JACKAL NEWS – Chinese state dragon, CCTV Africa and “I LOVE AFRICA” slogan has officially kicked off its African offshoot, a news productions center based in Kenya that focuses on African news and perspectives as well as international news.
January 11, 2012
19:24
Voila! Brazilian Gisele Bündchen, World Richest Model, Catwalk Queen, Is In Kenya
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JACKAL NEWS - Scotching hot Brazilian temptress Gisele Bündchen is in Kenya not for an international modelling gig, but as a UNEP Goodwill Ambassador to promote small-scale sustainable energy solutions project, sources told the Jackal News.
15:18
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: S. K Macharia In The United States To Buy News Helicopter For Kenya's Citizen TV
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenyan media mogul S. K. Macharia has travelled to the United States to buy a 250-million-shilling helicopter to be used by Citizen TV for major assignments, including the forthcoming general elections, sources told the Jackal News.
11:38
Media Predators In Secret Talks With KTN’s Dennis Onsarigo, Mohamed Ali
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JACKAL NEWS – Ulcer-inducing investigators Dennis Onsarigo and Mohamed Ali could be headed out of Kenya Television Network to cause more damage in another TV Channel if a series of secret talks with others media managers yield fruits, the Jackal News can reveal.
January 10, 2012
12:02
One True Thing: Mwendwa Kiogora, ‘Heart Of Gold And Nerves Of Steel,’ Bows Out Of KTN
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NAIROBI – Mwendwa Kiogora, an experienced and one of the most humble hands in the Kenya media, has offered her resignation to Kenya Television Network managers as the channel starts stampeding its way back to real life after a painfully icy plunge, sources told the Jackal News.
January 09, 2012
18:02
Heroically Stubborn Editors, Analysts Say KTN Recovery On Full Swing
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NAIROBI – A heroically stubborn editors, including some from the Standard Group and market analysts have told the Jackal News that the country’s oldest TV channel Kenya Television Network has started bouncing back to ruthlessly reclaim its top position and above all honour, in exclusive interviews.
January 04, 2012
19:36
Terror Stricken NMG Correspondents Star Scouting For Jobs Ahead Of Sackings
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JACKAL NEWS – Correspondents working for semi-dictatorial Nation Media Group have descended into a round of bloodletting and recrimination after learning from the Jackal News that the face the chopping block, sources said, after five Kisumu colleagues were guillotined.
December 30, 2011
18:30
“The Ship Has Sunk” Please Sack KTN’s Katua Nzile And Kizito Namulanda Like Now
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JACKAL NEWS – A feudal-lord kind of working approach, redolent of medieval ages, is behind the declining standards of news and program production at the ailing KTN television, three senior Standard Group staff members have told Jackal News.
December 29, 2011
18:30
KBC Breathes New Life to Comedian Mzee Ojwang Who Was Killed Online
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JACKAL NEWS - The Kenyan state broadcaster, KBC, has decided to breathe new life to the eternal comedian Benson Wanjau better known as Mzee Ojwang, killing rumours on social media that he had died.
December 28, 2011
12:44
Citizen TV Scrambles To Save Crumbling Empire Threatened By Mass Exodus
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JACKAL NEWS – Managers in Kenya’s populist Citizen TV were scratching their heads to stop star reporters from decamping to other facing TV channels, sources told the Jackal News, as it emerged that the station could suffer a mass exodus in January due to shoddy working conditions.
December 27, 2011
14:55
Allegations of County Edition “Bunga Bunga” Orgies Involving NTV Staff Bubble
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JACKAL NEWS - When NTV’s Country Edition news programme was broadcast to living rooms every weekend night over the past several months, audiences did not see any indication that some key members of the production crew were involved in anything resembling orgies. Yet some were.
December 26, 2011
15:01
Standard Group Starts To Crack Whip On TV Managers To Save Ailing Giant
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JACKAL NEWS – The anaemic Kenya Television Network – Standard Group’s broadcasting wing -- has created a top position for Katua Nzile, a move that insiders said was designed to sideline Kizito Namulanda, the managing editor broadcast services, sources told the Jackal News.
December 23, 2011
12:58
Sunday Nation Set To Lose Top Political Analyst To Nairobi Law Monthly
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JACKAL NEWS – Sunday Nation pre-eminent political analyst Emeka-Mayaka Gekara is set to leave the media giant's twin towers to take an exciting position as political editor at the rising Nairobi Law Monthly, one of the most authoritative magazines in the region, sources told the Jackal.
December 22, 2011
16:45
Jilted Boyfriend Leaks Mombasa Journalist’s Nude Pictures
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JACKAL NEWS – A malicious and extremely diabolical boyfriend sneaked into the email account of former The Standard and The Star newspapers reporter, Gulsun Ahmed, and circulated her private pictures to top media managers in Kenya, including The Standard Group Deputy Chairman Paul Melly, the Jackal News has learnt.
December 20, 2011
20:26
Suicidal KTN Attempts To Re-Organise Near-Dead Newsroom After Mass Exodus
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JACKAL NEWS - The increasingly suicidal Kenya Television Network has re-organised its anaemic newsroom in a bid to breathe new life into the troubled broadcasting outfit, itself a potrait of despair.
December 19, 2011
13:57
The Government Must Punish Kenya Today Newspaper’s Prodigious Butchers
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JACKAL NEWS – A few months ago, the Jackal News fought valiantly with the corrupt politburo that managed the government rag, Kenya Today, compelling it to pay staff salaries. Then, it thinly warned that the weekly faced doom if not yanked from the bloodied hands of Times Management Group, a gang of have-beens that killed the venerable Kenya Times.
December 14, 2011
7:54
Dysfunctional KTN Deploys Ugandan Bimbos To “Sink” Night News
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JACKAL NEWS – Dysfunctional KTN has deployed Ugandan bimbos to breathe new life into the ailing TV channel that has of late become an object of pity and, or at least, a laughing stock in the fledgling broadcasting market.
December 08, 2011
11:03
Metro FM Rebrands As Venus FM; New Staff And Managers Are Damn Novices
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JACKAL NEWS - The Kenyan state media, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), has re-branded the music channel Metro FM as a girl’s radio, hiring novices as presenters and naming as the manager a woman who ''remembers names of plants faster than the names of acquaintances'', a source has told Jackal News.
December 07, 2011
16:12
Kenyan Editors Bribed To Skew Reporting War With Somali Rebels
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JACKAL NEWS - Kenyan military commanders and government PR spin-doctors decreed local media editors on how to report the entry of the east African country's soldiers into Somalia to hunt down Al-Shabab rebels, sourced have told Jackal News.
December 03, 2011
12:22
Pressure To Sound Like God As Janet Mbugua Goes On Air
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JACKAL NEWS - Janet Mbugua came under painful spotlight and pressure to sound like an angel this week as she went on air to read night news on a huge salary described by some as obscene.

Yes, Citizen TV. It was on autocue. And it is not easy.
December 01, 2011
19:10
Armed Cowards Attack Editor, Seek To Cow Jackal News
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JACKAL NEWS - Armed bandits attacked a Jackal News editor in Nairobi on Tuesday night, incensed by the website’s reporting on drugs, the first brazen assault on journalist since the killing of Francis Nyaruri on 16 January 2009.
November 29, 2011
10:32
And Finally, Janet Mbugua Prepares To Read Citizen TV News On Massive Pay
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JACKAL NEWS – And finally, Citizen TV has started broadcasting a promotional trailer for its newest expensive cargo, Janet Mbugua, preparing the ‘million-shilling’ babe to read news at the top Kenyan TV channel.
November 28, 2011
14:38
Beijing Bribes Kenyan Editors With A Paid-For Trip To Beijing
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JACKAL NEWS – The Jackal News has learnt that the Chinese government has sponsored a trip for local Kenyan editor to visit the Dragon Republic to understand how the emerging economic power is handling issues.
November 21, 2011
13:28
No Larry Madowo, You Must Stop Threatening Journalists And Bloggers Now
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JACKAL NEWS – Pathologically overrated Kenyan business news reporter Larry Madowo abused online commentators calling them “know-it-all” as he went on the offensive to fight off accusations relating to a list of supposedly wealthy individuals Forbes published - and which Madowo was consulted on.
November 17, 2011
18:46
Standard Group’s War Plan As Police Head To Court Over Cocaine Saga
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JACKAL NEWS – The Standard Group is planning to fight a bare-knuckled legal war by demanding authorities to disclose key evidence kept away from the courts in a much-anticipated showdown with police officers named in the multi-billion-shillings-drug haul report that mesmerised the nation, annoyed the police and put the media giant in fresh odds with authorities.
November 16, 2011
20:01
KTN’s Inside Story: Anyone Can Doubt A Bad Reporter; It’s The Good Ones Who Need Watching
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JACKAL NEWS – Everybody has been commenting on the jaw-dropping KTN cocaine dealing/police deaths report, and since the case is headed to court, I rushed to toss my hat into the ring and offer my two cents; for better or for worse, before I am blocked by some inane principle called sub judice.
November 14, 2011
17:19
Kenyan Radio In Coma Gaffe Over Israeli President's Name
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JACKAL NEWS - Premier Kenyan radio station Capital FM took down an erroneous story on the name of the Israeli president, highlighting the incompetence of official press teams of Kenyan leaders andrecklessness of news managers in local newsrooms.
November 09, 2011
16:42
Junior Kenya Reporters Complain Editors Drinking Their Milk
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JACKAL NEWS – Crime and court reporters in Kenya have expressed horror after their editors decided to participate in an International Criminal Court (ICC) reporting workshop in Mombasa, saying they have been sidelined, the Jackal News reports.
15:47
International Press Partially Shun Kenya Military Updates On Somali War
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JACKAL NEWS – BBC and other international media houses are restraining themselves from fully relying on statements issued by the Kenyan military spokesman on the updates from Somalia where Kenyan fighters are battling Al-Shabaab insurgentS, souerces told the Jackal News.
13:37
NTV’s Linus Kaikai And Other Editors Named To Oversee Al Jazeera Swahili Launch
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JACKAL NEWS – Jackal News has learnt that NTV’s Managing Editor Linus Kaikai will be leaving his currently erratic employer to join Al Jazeera Swahili service.
November 04, 2011
13:39
Angry Linus Kaikai Vows To Clean Uninspiring NTV News Amid Turmoil
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JACKAL NEWS – NTV Managing Editor Linus Kaikai is a man on a war path and the Nation Media Group’s top dogs are backing his “ruthless” plans to overhaul the hugely underperforming NTV news department, sources told the Jackal News.
November 01, 2011
15:26
Terry-Anne Chebet Ditches Citizen TV, Takes Up CCTV Offer
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JACKAL NEWS –Business journalist Terryanne Chebet has ditched Citizen TV, where her career was nearly stalled and taken up an offer with the Chinese dragon, CCTV, sources told the Jackal News
October 26, 2011
18:25
China’s Xinhua’s News Agency To Launch CNC Television In Kenya
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JACKAL NEWS – China’s Xinhua, one of the biggest news agencies in the world, will launch its English language television station in Kenya next year, CNC TV, sources told the Jackal News, in a direct confrontation its Chinese government sister, CCTV.
October 24, 2011
11:32
Royal Media CEO Pledges Pay Hikes For Technical And Production Staff
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JACKAL NEWS – The Ultra-rich Royal Media Services (RMS) has agreed to offer its technical and production staff pay hikes as well as introduce grading system, its CEO Wachira Waruru told them during a retreat in Mombasa’s Serena Beach Hotel.
October 21, 2011
18:14
Beatrice Marshall Has CCTV In Her Pants, Blocks Cynthia Nyamai’s Job Offer
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JACKAL NEWS – Grossly overrated TV girl, Beatrice Marshall is reportedly blocking her former workmate, Cynthia Nyamai, from working for the Chinese state dragon, CCTV, for reasons Jackal News cannot attempt to fathom, the latest in a series of kamikaze-style moves in the Kenyan media.
October 19, 2011
15:55
CCTV Top Dogs, Citizen TV Battle For Jemima Mungai Services
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JACKAL NEWS – Top Chinese state television executives telephoned Jemima Mungai from Beijing and asked her to quit Citizen TV to possibly become CCTV’s chief news editor, sources told the Jackal News.
October 18, 2011
20:07
Pay Kenya Today Newspaper Staff And Charge Ezekiel Mutua Of Fraud
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JACKAL NEWS – Government-funded propaganda sheet, Kenya Today, has never paid its employees for several months, apparently conning them of their salaries, sources told the Jackal News, and they are baying for the blood of former Information Director Ezekiel Mutua and co.
October 17, 2011
13:05
Journalist, Ondeko Aura, Takes Temporary Charge Of CCTV Operations
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JACKAL NEWS – Veteran journalist Ondeko Aura has taken temporary charge of Chinese state dragon, CCTV, in Kenya as the station has started preparing programmes air ahead of hit the Kenyan airwaves, sources told the Jackal News.
October 12, 2011
18:57
Spooked by Jackal News Story, Citizen TV Hikes Anchors' Salaries
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya’s top TV Citizen TV has started reviewing salaries of its news anchors after Jackal News reported that Janet Mbugua was talking home Ksh 800,000-a-month, touching off a firestorm in the channel, sources told the Jackal News.
October 06, 2011
12:43
Top Kenyan Editor Arrested In Bar Brawl Over Bimbo
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JACKAL NEWS – In line with pathetically-low standards in Kenyan media, a top editor was over the weekend briefly arrested after he was involved in a bar brawl over a bimbo whose identity remains mysterious, the Jackal News can report.
October 05, 2011
16:54
Shameless Kenyan Journalists In A Salary Blackmail Spree
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JACKAL NEWS – A growing number of Kenyan journalists have started blackmailing their bosses with a threat to decamp to cash-drenched Al Jazeera or Chinese state dragon, CCTV, in order to get pay hikes, sources told the Jackal News.
October 02, 2011
16:30
Top Editors Exit KTN Mounting Misery On Anaemic Channel
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JACKAL NEWS – Tonnes of misery is mounted on Kenya Television Network after two editors decamped from the fledgling channel, sources told the Jackal News,
September 28, 2011
18:26
Storm Looms Over Janet Mbugua’s “Obscene” Ksh 800,000 Salary
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JACKAL NEWS – A perfect storm is looming in Citizen TV’s over Janet Mbugua’s astronomical six-figure-monthly salary. Boy, this time is goddamn serious.
September 24, 2011
12:31
Kenyan Editor’s Sex Drooping Images Rock Media World
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JACKAL NEWS - Nude images of a top Kenyan television news editor have surfaced on cyber-space, rocking the media world, the Jackal News can report.
September 21, 2011
15:55
Rashid Ronald, Who Ditched NTV, Joins Fading BBC Africa
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JACKAL NEWS - Kenyan journalist Rashid Ronald who left floundering NTV sometimes back has now joined BBC, the last bastion of cultured Englishness, sources told the Jackal News, amid rising expectations that the new job would breathe new life to his fading career.

“He has since left NTV and he has joined BBC offices and will be working with them,” a source said, explaining that he could be replacing another highly-talented Kenyan journalist who took a sabbatical to preach and has shown unwillingness to return. Before getting the BBC gig, he did an interview with CCTV, but was not lucky enough.

Ronald joins the BBC African service is rapidly losing and ground to Qatar-funded Al Jazeera that is determined to take the pole position in reporting Africa. Experts fear the BBC will further suffer with the entry of Chinese state dragon, CCTV, which is still trawling established journalist across the East African region.

Ronald joins his former colleague at NTV Sophie Ikenye, who was acrimoniously off-loaded from NTV, but landed in BBC African Service in London, where is has regained new life.

While the BBC World Service remains the flagship of the London-funded monster, its recent performance mainly in regional services, like its African Service, has suffered profusely owing to exodus of talent and lack of funding from the British Foreign Office.
September 20, 2011
12:11
NTV Seeks News Anchors, Set To Tighten Employment Contract
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NAIROBI – Struggling Kenya's NTV is new searching for news anchors to replace those who fled to the somewhat well-paying Chinese state television, CCTV, and is set to tighten its employment contract to fore-stall future exodus of talent from the fledgling channel, sources told the Jackal News.
September 16, 2011
16:56
Citizen TV Paying Janet Mbugua Ksh 800,000, Cameramen Ksh 44,000
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JACKAL NEWS – When Janet Mbugua goes on air to read news on 800,000 shillings-a-month-pay on Citizen TV, the men and women behind the camera and autocue on a 44,000 shillings-a-month of the same currency may be tempted to super-impose a spooky montage behind her. And somehow, it is easy to sympathize with them.
September 15, 2011
20:29
Technical Crew Decamps Citizen TV, Spook SK Macharia
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JACKAL NEWS – The media migration tsunami has hit the popular Citizen TV, with its top editorial technical crew joining the growing list of journalists decamping to the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV and Germany TV, sources told the Jackal News, compelling the company to call a crisis meeting.
16:02
Kenya's KTN Loses Top Editors To Chinese TV
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JACKAL NEWS – Kenya Television Network (KTN) editors Beatrice Marshall and Robert Soi are quitting the station to take up positions at the Chinese state broadcaster, CCTV, in the latest exodus of local journalists seeking greener pastures in international media.
September 14, 2011
13:28
Kenya's Star Newspaper Defends Irresponsibly Bad Journalism
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JACKAL NEWS -Kenya's sensationalist left-leaning The Star newspaper was Wednesday fighting to retain its few readers readers and jittery advertisers, after coming under sharp public criticism for publishing a graphic front-page photo of a charred body.
September 09, 2011
12:10
South African TV To Open Studio in Kenya Next Year
» ‎ Jackal News

JACKAL NEWS – South African entertainment channel ETV-Africa is setting shop in Kenya, the latest in a series of international TV brands that have developed an appetite for the east African nation, sources told the Jackal News.
September 07, 2011
14:48
Citizen TV Suspends All Managers Over Fraud Claims
» ‎ Jackal News

JACKAL NEWS - The family that runs Kenya's Citizen TV has suspended all line managers in a move to investigate a horror of suspected loss of millions of shilling in apparent fraud, amid panic over staff haemorrhage at the country's most successful media to international broadcasters, official said.
September 06, 2011
13:04
Kenyan Editors In Massive CCTV Recruitment Raid
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JACKAL NEWS - More names of Kenyan journalists and editors being considered for jobs at the official state-run Chinese television station have been revealed, as it emerges that the broadcaster is seeking to hire about 200 people from the east Africa region.
September 05, 2011
19:05
Reckoning: Movie That Inspired Ocampo To Probe Kenya May Win
» ‎ Jackal News

JACKAL NEWS - The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court takes an inside look at the workings of this huge leglislative behemoth, supported and doubted in equal measure by a parade of global bystanders, many of its strongest critics standing in the very shadows of its imposing courtrooms.
10:46
Terror In Kenyan Newsrooms Over Al-Jazeera, CCTV jobs
» ‎ Jackal News

JACKAL NEWS -Panic has gripped newsrooms of leading Kenya's private media as it emerges that giant Al-Jazeera Television and Chinese state television broadcaster (CCTV) have started hiring some journalists from the east African nation, with Nation television (NTV) appearing to have suffered the first casualty.
June 16, 2011
22:22
Use Corn Starch To Clean Up Stains, Spills On Furniture
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NAIROBI, JUNE 15 (JACKAL NEWS) - Corn starch is dirt cheap, and while most of us have only ever used it for cooking, it's great for cleaning up some of the nastier spills and stains we come across from day to day.

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