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JUNE 2019 Issue No. 3 Humble Ali Manzu insists he is no celeb ANNE NJOGU: ON RECORD: Kisumu I am a simple Demystifying bureau person blessed the Standard isn’t your with a voice for Group library. ordinary change. P40 P26 office. P38 There is an undisputed news leader in the TV industry. Dedicated to breaking news, current affairs, sports, business, ground breaking documentaries and investigative features. Watch us on DStv 274, GOtv 94, Zuku 14, BAMBA TV and all free to air set top boxes. Content IN THIS ISSUE | MAY 2019 TEAM BUILDING Standard Group staff attend a There is an Contents team building exercise at Let us move the Standard Group to a new Kenya School of undisputed news leader frontier of growth, Orlando Lyomu, CEO Adventure and the Standard Group Page 5 Leadership; an exercise aimed in the TV industry. at bringing Choma Na Ngoma Event various staff together to further encourage team work. Page 14 100 YEARS OF STANDARD GROUP We have been in this The historic concert did not disappoint attracting over 5,000 music lovers. Page 20 business for a century, and we aren’t giving up MARGARET KOBIA anytime soon. Page 6, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Public 42 Service, Youths & Gender Affairs, says that in a changed media landscape, there must FEATURE be advocacy for gender equality. Page 12 What it takes to maintain RELEVANT PARTNERSHIPS a healthy lifestyle. Page 28 Dedicated to breaking news, current affairs, JKUAT and Standard Group sign deal to sports, business, ground breaking documentaries promote innovation. Page 16 and investigative features. STANDARD DIGITAL Real time updates make website popular. Page 24 Follow us on twitter @Standardgrouplc COVER STORY: The Humble Ali Manzu Follow us on facebook The Standard Group Plc insists he just does his job and is not a Watch us on DStv 274, GOtv 94, Zuku 14, BAMBA TV and all free to air set top boxes. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/corporate celeb. Page 34 3. THE TEAM Chief Editor CHARLES KIMATHI Editor FAITH RONOH Creative Designer VICTOR OMOLO Contributing writers ABIGAEL SUM, KIUNDU WAWERU, JOANNE WANJALA, NAOMI KOSGEI, MONICA KOMEN, KEVIN OGUTU, ANNIE GITAU, GLORIA ARADI, MULINDI CAREY FROM THE CHIEF EDITOR ear colleagues, I welcome you to yet another issue of The Standard Photographer Insight magazine as we forge ahead with all our big plans for 2019. MONICA KOMEN DWe thank God for seeing us through 2018, which was a historically significant year as we celebrated the Centenary of the Group - that is 100 years since it’s incorporation as a company, in 1918. We take you back - CONTACTS visually - to those iconic years in this issue. STANDARD GROUP Plc We have tried to capture in these pages what was no doubt an eventful P.O Box 30080,00100 Nairobi 2018, yet what we present is by no means exhaustive. We pledge to cover Kenya as many of our Group’s events as the pages will allow, be they corporate or Switch Board Tel: 3222200, departmental, wherever they happen. Help us to do this by sending in your 0719012121/42 stories and photos or by inviting the Corporate Affairs Media Team to cover Email: corporate@ your events. standardmedia.co.ke The inspiring stories of two humble colleagues adorn our cover in this issue - Ali Manzu and Anne Njogu, while the Standard Group Women paint All correspondence, images or graphics submitted to The the pages red as they launch the Women’s Network. Elsewhere, physical Standard Insight is assumed fitness guru Jacinta Awour challenges us to stay fit (and shows us how). to be intended for publication. As Robert Toroitich tells us how the digital gurus have managed to stay The Standard Insight accepts no responsibility for unsolicited ahead of the pack, and John Oywa reveals the secret behind the success of manuscripts, artworks or the bureau by the lake, we attempt to demystify our famous library, that photographs. All rights on publication remain with the holds materials that are more than 100 years old. publisher. Welcome and enjoy the read. Front cover Photo: Monica Komen CONNECT WITH US @Standardgrouplc The standard group plc [email protected] Website: www.Standardmedia.co.Ke Write to us: P.O.Box 30080 - 00100, GPO Nairobi, Kenya. Call us: 020 3222111 / 0719 012 111 ambazuko ToleoP Nambari 20180188/ Septema 26 - Oktoba 2 2018 Gazeti Rasmi La Pwani 50/=40/= LET US MOVE THE STANDARD GROUP TO A NEW FRONTIER OF GROWTH, ORLANDO LYOMU, CEO THE STANDARD GROUP t is my pleasure to present provides a public platform for to you the third issue of The industry stakeholders, small, IStandard Insight, a platform medium and large businesses, for internal communication for the National Government, the Group. its agencies and parastatals, Last year we set our sights County governments, NGOs, on big audacious goals and as other non-State actors and you know, we achieved many citizens to engage by sharing of these goals and recorded views on issues affecting gains in our overall performance the nation and offer possible which appeared unattainable solutions. over the years. This year, we focus on This publication highlights innovation while growing our our key undertakings during existing product offerings. the year, most of which were As you are aware, we have key to the achievement of launched new products both our goals, our centenary on the print and broadcast celebrations, launch of fronts. We have two new radio the Group’s Women stations, Vybes Radio and Spice Network, our stakeholder FM, two new TV channels, KTN engagements and focus Burudani TV and KTN Farmers on our staff and their TV, and two regional papers, achievements. Pambazuko and Mt. Kenya Star. Notably, we launched I wish to thank all the staff for two key initiatives: remaining focused and working FarmKenya Initiative and tirelessly to attain our goals. Transform Kenya Forum. We are in mid-2019 and this FarmKenya focuses on year is proving to be a difficult the agribusiness sector one, as we had predicted. I and is anchored on therefore urge all staff to think strategic partnerships of innovative ways in which we and dissemination can improve our operations to of farming content create value and achieve our through our media targets for 2019. platforms. Let us move the Standard Transform Group to a new frontier of Kenya Forum growth. This year, we focus on innovation while growing our existing product offerings 5 Standard Group turns 100 years The group has The Standard Group was made public and incorporated on March 5, changed hands 1918, at the height of the First World War. several times since Even before then, the Standard its establishment. newspaper was operational having been established on November However, despite 15, 1902 under the name African Standard by Mr Alibhai Mulla the changing Jeevanjee. circumstances and It was a weekly newspaper which was run by one man, WH Tiller: he the fact that it is was the reporter, editor, sub-editor, the oldest media revise editor and at the same time, he was in-charge of advertising and house in Kenya, circulation. Jeevanjee later sold the paper to the Standard Anderson and Mayer for £50 and Group Plc has been it was renamed The East African Standard and turned into a daily. resilient for the last Over the years, the company added three other publications, century. starting with the Tanganyika Standard and Daily News (both in 1930). By Abigael Sum In September 1939, the company launched Baraza, the first Kiswahili umetoka Mbali’ is probably weekly publication targeted at a phrase that best soldiers at the war front and also describes Standard Group meant to unite the people of East Plc’s 100-year journey. Africa. TTo many in the media industry, Then in collaboration with the the Standard Group Plc has played East Africa Literature Bureau, an important role in the industry’s the company launched Tazama, a growth and the country’s fight for humorous cartoon publication. press freedom. In 1953, Uganda Argus, which At the Standard Group Centre, later became Voice of Uganda, was the walls from the ground floor to launched to cater for the Ugandan the third floor tell part of its rich audience. history. Tracing back from 1901 when In 1979, another publication it was The African Standard to the was added to the stable -- Sunday groundbreaking ceremony of the Standard, which would become Standard Group Centre building. 6 boasts of great achievements another milestone by launching a second television channel, KTN News, Kenya’s 24-hour news and current affairs channel with extensive coverage of East Africa. All these achievements in Standard 1984: Stand- Group’s100-year-old journey have not ard library july been without challenges. The company suffered its first major setback in 1913, when a fire razed the Standard Building on Kaunda Street. The first issue of the newspaper, a souvenir today, was destroyed among other files. Twenty years ago, there was no Internet and there were very few desktop computers, so most of the work was done manually. Editors, sub-editors, reporters and copy writers used typewriters. In instances where The library played a very crucial role. It was the reference point past articles were for most of the research done by journalist. However, unlike this day needed for refer- and age where we have PPI and DCX, ence in the differ- it was not an easy task to get old articles for reference. ent bureaus, a fax Librarians had a difficult job of clipping articles and pasting them machine had to be on a sheet of paper, and classifying them accordingly.