KENYA'S CNN JOURNALIST WINNERS 2010

Winners in the individual competition categories are: MOHAMED AMIN PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDWinner: Boniface Mwangi, Freelance for The Star, Kenya Title: Body of work ‘The Boy Child in Sub Saharan Africa’Judge’s Citation: The set of pictures bring us directly to the life of the African child. It is a piece of Artwork achieved by the quality of the photos, the angles of contrasts between colourful

CNN AFRICAN JOURNALIST LIST IS OUT

Finalists in the prestigious CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2010 Competition were announced Thursday by Joel Kibazo, Chair of the independent judging panel. The competition is now in its 15th year. This year the competition received entries from 975 journalists from 40 countries throughout the continent, including French and Portuguese speaking Africa. There are 27 finalists from 15 countries

ALLAN NAMU MIGHT JUST WIN

The MultiChoice CNN Awards are scheduled for this Saturday July 18. Kenya’s Allan Namu is greatly tipped to emerge as the overall winner this year…This year the competition received entries from 836 journalists from 38 countries throughout the continent, including French and Portuguese speaking Africa.The CNN African Journalist of the Year Award was founded in 1995 by Edward Boateng (formerly

Photographer Boniface Mwangi banned by Facebook

The first Kenyan photojournalist to win the CNN Multichoice Journalist Award has been banned by social networking site Facebook. Boniface Mwangi who won the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year 2008 is starting up a new Facebook profile after his was deleted last week due to his radical status updates. Commenting on the issue he said, “I was removed from Facebook due to controversial updates

KTN Dominates the CNN MultiChoice Awards

Finalists in the prestigious CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2009 Competition were announced on Tuesday by Azubuike Ishiekwene, Chair of the independent judging panel. The competition is now in its 14th year. On the list are three KTN journalist; John-Allan Namu, James Moturi Mogaka and John Benson Mwangi. Others are Sammy Muraya of Metro FM, Boniface Mwangi of Expression Today and K24’s