Thursday, 29 September 2016

GODS, MISSING ATTRIBUTION AND THE BURDEN OF AN EDITORIAL FALLACY

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Unusual news stories are popular with the audience. They provide an avenue to come close to a strange experience, or phenomenon. The media r...
Thursday, 22 September 2016

TV EARPIECE, TALKBACK, SMELLAVISION AND NOSE-STALGIA

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In a TV studio, news presenters or program hosts use an earpiece to get cues or instructions from the director. In a talkback system, the pr...
Wednesday, 14 September 2016

#mVISA AND AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

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A big product launch. Potential market traction. Sustained social media endorsements. Sponsored tweets to promote functionalities. All detai...
Thursday, 8 September 2016

EMPHASIS, EUREKA AND EDITORIAL NEGLIGENCE

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Time or space are valuable factors, when putting together a news product. The selection of almost every word has to be justified in a newspa...
Friday, 2 September 2016

CONVERGED NEWSROOMS, DIVERGENT REALITIES

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That operations of Kenyan media houses have had to be re-evaluated, mainly due to technological disruption of hitherto working business mode...
Thursday, 25 August 2016

AFFRONT TO READERS' SANITY AND EDITORS' SHEER LUNACY

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The sheer lunacy of some newspaper editors in Kenya can seriously erode one's capacity to remain sane. Upholding simple professional sta...
Thursday, 18 August 2016

REPAINTING GOOD NEWS INTO A MASTERPIECE OF BAD NEWS

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Interpretive journalism is a celebrated departure from the numbing run of the mill reportage. It helps scribes to tackle the 'so what...