{"id":159,"date":"2015-08-18T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=159"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:24:44","slug":"amdf-rejoices-with-nancy-kacungira-on-her-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2015\/08\/18\/amdf-rejoices-with-nancy-kacungira-on-her-award\/","title":{"rendered":"AMDF Rejoices With Nancy Kacungira On Her Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) congratulates Nancy Kacungira, winner of the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.<\/p>\n<p>The award was established to honour Komla Dumor, a presenter for BBC World News, who died last year at the age 41 years.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Kacungira, a television anchor for Kenya&#8217;s KTN television channel, was selected out of about 200 applicants.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy grew up in Uganda where she attended Makerere University in Kampala. She has more than 14 years of experience working across a range of media in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania as well as a Masters degree in communications from Leeds University.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently the anchor of Prime Time Evening News on KTN where she is also the channel&#8217;s social media editor.<\/p>\n<p>Kacungira will spend three months at the BBC in London and also report from Africa for the BBC TV, radio and online.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the award, visit http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-radio-and-tv-30725772<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) congratulates Nancy Kacungira, winner of the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. The award was established to honour Komla Dumor, a presenter for BBC&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2015\/08\/18\/amdf-rejoices-with-nancy-kacungira-on-her-award\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journalists-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13247,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/13247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}