Linus Kaikai is a Kenyan

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currently working as Director of Strategy and Innovation of

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Television station

Citizen TV Citizen TV is a Kenyan free-to-air news television channel owned by Royal Media Services and broadcasting mostly in English and Swahili. It was started in 1999 and relaunched in June 2006. News and programs Citizen TV airs a variety of genre ...

and Chairman of the Kenya Editors Guild KEG.

Education career

Kaikai holds a master's degree in International Journalism, from the

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology or MMUST, formerly Western University College of Science and Technology, is a non-profit public university in Kenya. The university is named after Masinde Muliro, a Kenyan politician who helped fo ...

. He initially worked for the

Kenya Television Network Kenya Television Network (KTN) is a Kenyan free-to-air television network that was launched in March 1990 by Jared Kangwana. It is headquartered at Standard Group Centre, Nairobi. It was the first free-to-air privately owned television network ...

until June 1999. Kaikai then spent 8 years working at the

South African Broadcasting Corporation The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations ( AM/ FM) as well as six television broadcasts to the general public. It is one of the largest of South Africa's state ...

rising through the ranks from correspondent to Bureau Chief. He returned to the

in 2007 as Managing Editor in charge of Quality and Product Development. He spent two years at KTN before being posted at

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Awards

Kaikai won the 1997 CNN African Television Journalist 1st Prize while working for the

(KTN). He scooped the Environmental Journalist of the Year Award the following year.

Personal life

Kaikai is married to Jacinta Mueni, a group production manager at Ogilvy, Kenya.

References

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