NTV reporter looses dad, job under one month

Celebrated reporter Sharon Barang’a is going through a tough time after being fired by her employer NTV Kenya barely two weeks after losing her dad.

Barang’a shared the struggles she has been going through hours after NTV fired a number of its employees.

“I have lost my dad & job in one month…it is well. I am hanging in there. Thank you all for the calls, msgs & prayers,” Sharon Barang’a said in a tweet.

In 2016, Ms. Barang’a was among the winners of ICFJ’s Early Childhood Development Reporting Contest.

Nation Media Group is the latest media company to retrench its employees over tough economic times, brought about by the Coronavirus.

On at least 8 top journalists were shown the door from the Kimathi street based media house.

Those who were axed from NTV include; Ken Mijungu, Brenda Wanga, Debarl Inea, Sharon Baranga, Shaban Ulaya, Harith Salim, Lillian, Silas Apollo among others.

Head of Corporate & Regulatory Affairs Clifford Machoka explained that the media company had suffered severe challenges due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.

Many companies have either shutdown or substantially scaled down operations due to drastic decline of revenues. The media industry has not been spared with media houses globally including NMG having been severely impacted

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