Stories and Articles About Our Work

  • Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision - Photo Essay

    Friday, July 27, 2012

    Part of a series of reports from journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    Kenya is leading the way worldwide with the roll-out of voluntary medical male circumcision as an HIV prevention tool. Read more »

  • Story by story turning the tide against the spread of HIV

    Friday, July 27, 2012
    Man takes a photo at the conference

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Callie Long, Internews Consultant Read more »

  • Two Storytellers and a Global Village

    Thursday, July 26, 2012
    Otindo with video camera and Esipisu works at a laptop

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Ernest Waititu, Program Director, Health and Digital Media, Internews in Kenya

    Growing up in Es’song’olo Village in Western Kenya, Violet Otindo and Isaiah Esipisu loved listening to radio. With no swanky video games or TV sets in their parents’ living rooms, radio was one popular pastime. Read more »

  • Banking on Data and Why Journalism Matters

    Wednesday, July 25, 2012
    Panelist at the conference

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Ernest Waititu, Program Director, Health and Digital Media, Internews in Kenya

    When the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, spoke at AIDS 2012 on Sunday, he became the first head of the institution to ever address the International AIDS Conference. Read more »

  • Using the right source to crowdsource

    Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - Humanitarian Innovation Fund
    Humanitarian Innovation Fund

    (This blog post from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund web site covers Internews' project in the Central African Republic.) Read more »

  • Kenyans Excel in CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards

    Tuesday, July 24, 2012
    Two men standing on a stage

    Kenya retained the overall Journalist of the Year award at the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2012 Awards held in Lusaka, Zambia. Tom Mboya and Evanson Nyaga’s The African Tribe in India, which aired on Kenya’s Citizen Television, won the top prize. Five other Kenyan journalists were also feted.

    The Star newspaper science journalist John Muchangi won the HIV and AIDS reporting award for his story, Inside the life of a Nairobi male sex worker. Read more »

  • “Involve the media from the beginning”

    Tuesday, July 24, 2012
    Journalist interviews 2 participatns

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Ida Jooste, Country Director, Internews in Kenya

    Journalists are in the business of communicating, but increasingly, scientists are too. Read more »

  • The Changing Story of HIV and AIDS

    Monday, July 23, 2012

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Callie Long, Internews Consultant

    The evolving face of HIV calls for changes in the way journalists report on the epidemic. It is no longer a disease without hope – yet, sometimes, it still does not make news. Read more »

  • Violet Otindo: award-winning television producer and reporter from Kenya

    Monday, July 23, 2012
    Violet Otindo

    Violet Otindo is a television producer and reporter with Citizen TV and chair of Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture Association (MESHA). She is an award-winning journalist, taking home the CNN/Multichoice 2009 Environment Award, and the SJCOOP Science Reporting Fellowship for 2010-12. In addition, she is one of Internews in Kenya’s health fellows, as well as Health Story-teller of the year. Read more »

  • Isaiah Esipisu – freelance science journalist, Kenya

    Monday, July 23, 2012
    Isaiah Esipisu

    Isaiah Esipisu is a freelance science journalist focusing on environmental issues, health, agriculture and technology. He also heads up the Kenyan chapter of the Africa Media and Malaria Research Network.

    Isaiah was trained in health journalism and sponsored by Internews to travel to Washington DC to attend and report on the AIDS 2012 conference. He will be reporting on the conference for The Nation. Read more »