Business Journalists in Kenya

Cosmas Butunyi, East African

Cosmas Butunyi is a writer for The East African. Besides venture capital, he has also been writing on agriculture and science since 2007. He is currently studying at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa as the 2011 FitzGerald Prize fellow.

TerryAnne Chebet, Citizen TV

TerryAnne Chebet is the Associate Editor & Business News Anchor at Citizen Television. She was headhunted for Citizen TV to create a strategy for the business desk in a fast changing media environment, with her role primarily being to deliver an unrivalled business package. She also reports on news and business stories from across the African Continent, interviewing business leaders, policymakers and CEOs.

James Mbugua, The Star

James Mbugua is a business writer and alternate editor on the Business desk of Radio Africa Group, where he reports for the Star Newspaper and provides the group’s other news outlets with general business news. He also compiles and edits The Star’s technology section Star Tech. He has been with the paper for the last four years.

Zawadi Mudibo, KTN

Zawadi Mudibo is a business news reporter and anchor at KTN, having joined at the beginning of 2010. Having been previously employed as a business reporter at NTV, he started his career at Hope FM Radio where he had a short stint as current affairs programme producer. His primary interest, and the area where he feels his most memorable stories have come from, is entrepreneurial business features.

James Waithaka, The Star
James Waithaka is Property & Supplements Editor at The Star. In his current job he specialises in reports on trends and opportunities in the paper’s Property section, while he also manages and coordinates the editorial aspect of the Supplements section. He joined from Business Daily in July 2010.

Peter Wakaba, KTN

Peter Wakaba is a business journalist working with the Standard Group. He is currently the Deputy Business Editor at the Kenya Television Network, having joined the station in 2007 after a short stint at the Kenya Times as a general news writer. He is an alumnus of the University of Nairobi School of Journalism.