Daily Nation
{{short description|Kenyan newspaper}}
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| owners = Nation Media Group
| founder = Charles Hayes
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| foundation = 1958 as Taifa
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| language = English
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| headquarters = Nairobi, Kenya
| circulation = 170,000
| sister newspapers = Taifa Leo
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The Daily Nation is a Kenyan newspaper. It was founded in 1958 and is published in Nairobi.
History
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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.{{Cite web|title=Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports|url=https://biznakenya.com/daily-nation-today/|date=2019-03-15|website=Bizna Kenya|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-28|archive-date=18 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118064207/https://biznakenya.com/daily-nation-today/|url-status=live}}
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.
Goan Kenyan journalist Cyprian Fernandes worked at the Daily Nation and Sunday Nation 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.{{cite web | last=Veage | first=John | title=Yesterday in Paradise | website=St George & Sutherland Shire Leader | date=14 February 2017 | url=https://www.theleader.com.au/story/4465802/yesterday-in-paradise/ | access-date=6 January 2024}} He was one of the first Kenyan-born reporters at the paper.{{cite web | title=Cyprian Fernandes | website=The Nation | date=9 December 2023 | url=https://nation.africa/kenya/cyprian-fernandes-354426 | access-date=6 January 2024}}
Another well-known sports writer in the 1960s at the paper was Polly Fernandes.{{cite web | title=Remembering the football debacle of 1965 when Ghana thumped Kenya | website=Nation | date=21 December 2012 | url=https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/football/remembering-the-football-debacle-of-1965-when-ghana-thumped-kenya-841226 | access-date=3 January 2024 | archive-date=3 January 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103055319/https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/football/remembering-the-football-debacle-of-1965-when-ghana-thumped-kenya-841226 | url-status=live }}
Headquarters
The newspaper is today is published from the Nation Media Group headquarters on Kimathi Street in Nairobi.{{cite web | title=Contact Us | website=Nation | date=21 January 2021 | url=https://nation.africa/kenya/contact-us-294088 | access-date=6 January 2024}}
It is one of the leading newspapers in Kenya.{{cite web|access-date=21 November 2014|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-01/kenyan-media-company-linked-to-kenyatta-offers-free-daily-paper.html|title=Kenyan Media Company Linked to Kenyatta Offers Free Daily Paper|date=1 July 2014 |first=Charles|last=Wachira|publisher=Bloomberg News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129040339/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-01/kenyan-media-company-linked-to-kenyatta-offers-free-daily-paper.html |archive-date=November 29, 2014}}{{cite web|access-date=21 November 2014|url=http://www.cpj.org/2014/02/attacks-on-the-press-advertising.php|title=Advertising and Censorship In East Africa's Press |first=Tom| last=Rhodes | date=2013|publisher=Center for Public Justice (Washington, DC)|archive-date=29 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129062336/http://www.cpj.org/2014/02/attacks-on-the-press-advertising.php|url-status=live}}
Affiliated newspapers
- The Saturday Nation
- The Sunday Nation
- Business Daily Africa
- Taifa Leo, a Swahili-language newspaper, Kenya
- Daily Monitor, Uganda
- The Citizen, Tanzania
- The EastAfrican Newspapers
In film
A documentary film about the paper was released in 2000, directed by Dutch filmmakers Hillie Molenaar and Joop van Wijk.{{IMDb title|qid=Q124251342|title=The Daily Nation}}{{cite web | title=The Daily Nation: A documentary about a Kenyan newspaper | website=WorldCat | url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/429533604 | access-date=6 January 2024}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://nation.africa/}}
{{Media in Kenya}}
{{Agha Khan Fund for Economic Development}}
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Category:Newspapers published in Kenya
Category:1958 establishments in Kenya