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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Nation Media Group |
| Founder(s) | Charles Hayes |
| Founded | 1958 as Taifa |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Circulation | 170,000 |
| Sister newspapers | Taifa Leo |
| Website | nation.africa |
The Daily Nation is a Kenyan newspaper. It was founded in 1958 and is published in Nairobi.
The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by former editor of the British News Chronicle , Michael Curtis. [1]
The publisher was East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, which later became the Nation Media Group, with operations throughout the African Great Lakes region and is owned by the Aga Khan. [1]
Goan Kenyan journalist Cyprian Fernandes worked at the Daily Nation and SundayNation from 1960 until he was forced to flee Kenya around 1973, owing to his investigative journalism probing irregularities which came too close to the government under Jomo Kenyatta, and his family was threatened. By that time he was chief reporter. [2] He was one of the first Kenyan-born reporters at the paper. [3]
Another well-known sports writer in the 1960s at the paper was Polly Fernandes. [4]
The newspaper is today is published from the Nation Media Group headquarters on Kimathi Street in Nairobi. [5]
The Daily Nation and its Sunday edition paper Sunday Nation had a market share of 53% in 2011. [8] [9] Their market share was 74% in 2013. [8]
One of their main competitors in 2014 was The Standard , published by the Standard Group. [10]
A documentary film about the paper was released in 2000, directed by Dutch filmmakers Hillie Molenaar and Joop van Wijk. [11] [12]
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