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Mwenda Njoka

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Mwenda Njoka
OccupationJournalist

Mwenda Njoka is a Kenyan investigative journalist and winner of CNN Journalist of the Year Award.[1] He was one of the seventeen finalists of the 2004 CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition Launched under Sunday Nation/Daily Nation of Kenya in 2004.[2] He is also winner of Kalasha Film & TV Award[3] for his work on the documentary on the late JM Kariuki, a populist Kenyan legislator assassinated under mysterious circumstances in 1975. Njoka is also the founder of non-profit media development organization; Africa Centre for Investigative Journalism (ACIJ).[4] Currently working with Royal Media Services and is behind the Citizen TV Sunday Live news program "Who Owns Kenya".[5] He has previously worked with the Standard Newspapers where he won the 2003 Journalist of the Year award under the auspices of Kenya Union of Journalists, Nation Media Group.

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  1. ^ International Edition (2004-06-20). Peter Murimi named CNN African Journalist of the Year. The CNN Website, retrieved 14 August 2011
  2. ^ US Edition (2004-05-10). 2004 CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition Launched. The CNN Website, retrieved 12 October 2011
  3. ^ Film Awards (2009-07-01). Kalasha Award Winners 09 Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine. Nairobi Living, retrieved 14 August 2011
  4. ^ http://africacentreforinvestigativejournalism.org/ retrieved 14 August 2011 Archived March 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Suhayll99 (2010-09-05). Wananchi Group on Citizen TV. Youtube, retrieved 19 August 2011
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