Keeping up with the news in Kenya

Member since 30 May 2013

PriscillaViP10 August 2016 10:06:19

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Hello everyone,

Living in Kenya provides countless occasions to browse local newspapers, listen to local radio stations or watch local TV shows. As everywhere else in the world, local media play a key role in informing the public.

What are the major media in Kenya? Which one do you use on a regular basis?

How do you keep up with international issues (newspapers, radio, TV, Internet)?

Thank you in advance!

Priscilla

tendai kufa New member

Member since 27 August 2013

tendai kufaNew member16 August 2016 07:29:40

Mainly rely on the internet and international magazine such as Times, Newsweek and Economist, though pricey

Longonot62 Kenya Advisor

Member since 05 March 2010

Longonot62Kenya Advisor17 August 2016 03:21:53

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The major media in Kenya are the newspapers; Daily Nation, East African Standard and a few others, which don't sell as many.聽 There are also the TV channels;聽 KBC, NTV, Citizen (Royal Media), K24 being the major ones.聽 Mostly local news items and comment, with a heavy political bias.聽 International news is usually confined to a one page round up.

Local channels tend to focus on Kenyan news, with international news being (often briefly) well down the programming agenda, unless it is a very major event.聽 You won't really get a sense of what is going on outside the country, but you will become an expert on politics, which is often what the news leads with.聽 News is presented in both Swahili and English (at different times).

Digital TV providers often provide some international news channels.聽 We have 'Startimes', which has BBC international and Al Jazeera, plus South African News, for example.

Satellite TV is available (at considerable cost) via DSTV, a South African service provider.聽 This gives quite a broad choice of news programming, such as Sky News, CNN,聽 BBC, Al Jazeera, to name a few.