Keep hope alive, media industry crisis likely to get worse before getting better

Keep hope alive, media industry crisis likely to get worse before getting better

The situation is bad. Media Council of Kenya CEO David Omwoyo told the National Assembly Committee on Communication and Innovation that most media houses cannot pay their journalists or meet basic operating costs like electricity bills. “Less than 10 per cent of the media houses are operating optimally; 90 per cent of the media houses cannot even pay their license fees and statutory deductions,” he said on September 23. Omwoyo attributed the sit…