Citizen TV and NTV have surprsingly launched the new TV anchors all at the same month.
Besides each presented 7 anchors in what looks like TV rivalry for audience
Citizen TV
The recent departure of top journalists from Citizen TV has pushed them to sign new anchors from their rival TVs.
#LipoJambo @citizentvkenya @JamilaMohamed @MKapombe @RashidAbdalla @swalehmdoe @LuluHassan @nimrodtaabu pic.twitter.com/LvbqW6O7ju
— Yvonne Okwara-Matole (@YvonneOkwara) July 12, 2018
Below is the list of top journalists who have joined Royal Media Services
1.Nimrod Taabu
Joined from TV rival NTV
2.Rashid Abdalla
Comes from NTV
3.Victoria Rubadiri
4.Mashirima Kapombe
5.Linus Kaikai
6.Yvonne Okwara
7.Joe Ageyo
NTV
Nation Media Group wants to shake up the recent departure of its veteran journalists with a new germ of presenters with fresh breath it has picked signed from other media stations in Kenya.
Kinachodumu daima ni mabadiliko; usikose kutazama #NTVJioni kwa taarifa fasaha na za utendeti pic.twitter.com/TRdtRrXXwc
— NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) July 12, 2018
It is no doubt the likes of Linus Kaikai, Larry Madowo among other left big boots to filled, and the new anchors are surely not going to prove the NMG management wrong.
Below are the expected faces at NMG as from July, 2018.
English anchors
The new news wags will join the current group Mark Masai, Smirti Vidyarthi, Ken Mijungu, Trevor Ombija and Gladys Gachanja in the English bulletin segment
1.Olive Burrows
She joins the bulletin from Capital FM. She is famous for having interviewed Ex US President Obama and President Uhuru Kenyatta .
2.Zainab Ali
Zainab Ali is also set to be featured along the English bulletin with her key skills of reading news
3.Dennis Okari
Investigative journalist Okari will rather death with political interviews and fact finding rather than remaining on the investigative desk
Swahili anchors
They will join current team of Harith Salim, Jane Ngoiri and Dan Mule on NTV while reading Swahili news
4.Swaleh Salim
He joins the team from Citizen TV.
He is one of the bold and handsome wags on the docket
5.Doreen Majala Gatwiri
Doreen fresh from Ebru TV, is also on the news line up on the Swahili segment .
6.Nuru Abdulaziz
Nuru hopes to bring light during the evening 7 o’clock news. She is also from Ebru TV
7.Kaltun Jama
She is ex KBC journalist.
