160 media practitioners lost their jobs after Mediamax Ltd decided to retrench redundant employees.
The lay-off cut across the entire media company – from editorial to management, marketing, and printing press.
The sacking process kicked off after staff meeting on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 where Mediamax acting CEO Ken Ngaruiya announced the bad news that 160 employees would be fired. He said those being laid off would be called individually by the human resources team.
Popular media personalities; Mwanaisha Chidzuga, Managing Editor Franklin Wambugu, Deputy Managing Editor Ali Mtenzi, Head of sports Torome Tirike, Head of Business Tony Timase, Senior Reporter Frankilin Macharia and Swahili Anchor Juma Bhalo were all laid off.
K24 has started a pattern of poaching star journalists and then sacking them after a few years, Tony Timase and Torome Tirike were poached from Citizen TV and they have now been fired.
The latest full list of journalists fired by Mediamax
K24 did a similar thing with Anne Ngugi a few years back, they poached her from KTN only to sack her years later.
Sources intimate that K24 management could be sacking star journalists and have them rehired on lower terms like witnessed with Nation Media Group in January 2018.
