Daily Nation

This article is about the Kenyan newspaper. For the Barbadian newspaper, see The Daily Nation (Barbados).

Daily Nation
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBerliner
Owner(s)Nation Media Group
Founder(s)Charles Hayes
PublisherNation Media Group
Editor-in-chiefJoe Ageyo
Founded1958 as Taifa
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersNairobi, Kenya
Circulation170,000
Sister newspapersTaifa Leo
Websitenation.africa

The Daily Nation is a Kenyan daily newspaper based in Nairobi[1]. It was founded in 1958 and is published by Nation Media Group.

It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to most of its online articles and content.

History

Nation Center, headquarters of the Nation Media Group who publish the Daily Nation

A predecessor to The Daily Nation was a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes, founded in 1958[2]. It was bought in 1959 by Prince Shah Karim al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV 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.

The publisher was East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, which later became the Nation Media Group, with operations throughout the African Great Lakes region.[1]

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.[3] He was one of the first Kenyan-born reporters at the paper.[4]

Another well-known sports writer in the 1960s at the paper was Polly Fernandes.[5]

Headquarters

The newspaper was originally based at Nation House on Tom Mboya Street. It is now published from the Nation Media Group headquarters on Kimathi Street in Nairobi.[6]

It is one of the leading newspapers in Kenya.[7][8]

Market share

The Daily Nation and its Sunday edition paper Sunday Nation had a market share of 53% in 2011.[9][10] Their market share was 74% in 2013.[9]

One of its main competitors in 2014 was The Standard, published by the Standard Group.[11]

The daily first turned a profit in 1968, and by 1970, was selling over 46, 000 copies per issue[12].

Affiliated newspapers

In film

A documentary film about the paper was released in 2000, directed by Dutch filmmakers Hillie Molenaar and Joop van Wijk.[13][14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports". Bizna Kenya. 15 March 2019. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  2. ^ Loughran, Gerard (2010). The Birth of a Nation: The Story of a Newspaper in Kenya. Fifth Avenue, New York NY: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd. pp. 3–10. ISBN 978 1 84511 838 9.
  3. ^ Veage, John (14 February 2017). "Yesterday in Paradise". St George & Sutherland Shire Leader. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Cyprian Fernandes". The Nation. 9 December 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Remembering the football debacle of 1965 when Ghana thumped Kenya". Nation. 21 December 2012. Archived from the original on 3 January 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Contact Us". Nation. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  7. ^ Wachira, Charles (1 July 2014). "Kenyan Media Company Linked to Kenyatta Offers Free Daily Paper". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  8. ^ Rhodes, Tom (2013). "Advertising and Censorship In East Africa's Press". Center for Public Justice (Washington, DC). Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  9. ^ a b "Daily Nation Newspaper and facts about Nation Media Group". BuzzKenya. 10 June 2013. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  10. ^ Ngoge, Tinega Geoffrey (2014). A Comparative Study of Print and Online Media Content in Kenya: A Case of 'Daily Nation' Newspaper (M.A.). University of Nairobi.
  11. ^ "Daily Nation (Kenya) Newspaper". Kenya-Advisor.com. 13 June 2011. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  12. ^ "History". The Nation Media Group. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  13. ^ The Daily Nation at IMDb 
  14. ^ The Daily Nation: A documentary about a Kenyan newspaper. OCLC 429533604.
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