Linus Kaikai’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Kenyan journalist
Is Journalist 
From South Africa 
Type Journalism 
Gender male

Linus Kaikai is a Kenyan award-winning journalist currently working as Director of Strategy and Innovation of Kenyan Television station Citizen 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. He initially worked for the Kenya Television Network until June 1999. Kaikai then spent 8 years working at the South African Broadcasting Corporation rising through the ranks from correspondent to Bureau Chief. He returned to the Kenya Television Network in 2007 as Managing Editor in charge of Quality and Product Development. He spent two years at KTN before taking up his current posting at NTV.

Awards

Kaikai won the 1997 CNN African Television Journalist 1st Prize while working for the Kenya Television Network (KTN). He scooped the Environmental Journalist of the Year Award the following year.

Personal life

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

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