Renowned Journalist Grace Kuria Quits TV47 After 6 Months
Renowned Journalist Grace Kuria Quits TV47 After 6 Months Photo Courtesy
TV47 loses renowned broadcast journalist Grace Kuria Kanja, barely six months after joining from BBC. An accredited source informed KEnews254 that Kuria was leaving the TV station.
Kuria praised her coworkers for their amazing job at the station on Monday, January 8, even though she requested not to comment on the situation when KEnews254 contacted her.
“Hello, team. Happy New Year! It’s been an awesome 6 months plus at TV47, working alongside a fantastic, gifted team with so much potential,” KEnews254 obtained an internal message she sent to her coworkers that partially stated this.
Grace thanked them all, especially the people she worked with on the weekends when she was hosting two feature shows in addition to the 9 p.m. news broadcast.
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“I’m grateful to each one of you, and particularly those we worked with every Saturday and Sunday on HerSay, and to the point. Like they say, it’s not a goodbye but a see you later. Blessings to each one of you. GKK,” she concluded.
The source further revealed to KEnews254 that Kuria is heading to an unidentified international media outlet that is yet to be established.
Kuria also brings a lot of experience from her prior work with K24, CGTN, KTN News, BBC, and most recently, TV47 to her reporting for TV and digital media, producing, editing, and presenting/anchoring skills. Kuria was one of the respectable reporters who joined TV47 in July 2023 when they redesigned their newsroom, along with Mwanaisha Chidzuga and George Maringa.
She joined the BBC on September 23, 2021, just three days after announcing her departure from China Global Television Network (CGTN); therefore, this move represented her return to national television screens.
She presented a show called The She Word on the BBC that focused on the stories that connected African women in the modern era.
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Among other stimulating conversations, she conducted high-profile interviews at TV47 with the First Lady of Namibia, Monica Geingos, and the US Ambassador to Kenya, Meg Whitman.
On December 17, 2023, she was one of the media that President William Ruto hosted for a roundtable interview at State House in Nairobi.
Kuria is probably going to join the long list of journalists that foreign media behemoths have stolen from Kenyan media outlets.
The most recent, which is ironic, came from TV47. Flora Limukii, a political reporter and news anchor, has joined CNBC (previously Consumer News and Business Channel), a multinational broadcaster with an African subsidiary based in South Africa.
