Vincent Achuka - Profile and Journalist Details

Beats

Biography

Vincent Achuka is an award winning investigations and special projects reporter for the weekend editions at the Standard Media Group. He has specific interests in crime, corruption, human interest stories, transport, aviation, business and urban trends. Prior to joining the Standard he worked for the Sunday Nation and before that for the the Ghetto Mirror, a community Newspaper ran by Shining Hope for Communities-an international NGO that focuses on social issues in the informal settlements of Nairobi. In between he free-lanced for South Africa’s Sunday Times, UKs Think Africa Press and Next City in New York majorly writing features about Kenya’s slums. In 2017 he was awarded best Investigations reporter by the Media Council of Kenya and also best gender reporter. He was also first runners up in IT reporting. In 2014, Achuka was awarded the tourism story of the year in the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards by the Media Council of Kenya for his 2013 “Slum tourism, the new fad for tourists in Kenya,” which talked about the rise of slums as an attraction for tourists and the need for Kenya to regulate and adopt as part of its vision 2030 objectives as South Africa and India have done. In the same year, his investigative story “Gaza, the new teenage killer gang calling the shots in Nairobi’s Eastlands” won first runners up for the good governance reporting award by the Media Council of Kenya. He is a 2010 Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication graduate of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. He is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Business Administration at Egerton University.

Content

Total articles 1713

• Gachagua's charges similar to those he faced three years ago

  By Vincent Achuka Verified · The Standard (Kenya)

  Oct. 07, 2024

As seen in

Company Info

Daily Nation