Larry Madowo

Journalist

Larry Madowo was born in Siaya, Nyanza Province, Kenya on July 14th, 1987 and is the Journalist. At the age of 36, Larry Madowo biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 14, 1987
Nationality
Kenya
Place of Birth
Siaya, Nyanza Province, Kenya
Age
36 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Journalist
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Columbia University (MA)
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Larry Madowo Life

Larry Madowo (born 14 July 1987) is a Kenyan journalist and a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University in New York.

He was previously the BBC Africa Business Editor.

He has worked as a news anchor who specialized in technology, current affairs, political interviews, and popular culture.

Larry Madowo, a former analyst with Kenya Television Network and CNBC Africa, resigned from NTV in March 2018 to join the BBC.

He hosted The Larry Madowo Show on Nation FM from August 2014 to October, until the station was out of business.

Every week, he wrote a column titled #FrontRow in the Daily Nation.

#theTrend, a popular Friday night program on NTV, ran until June 30th.

Early life

Madowo grew up in several parts of Kenya, including Siaya, Kisumu, and Nairobi. He attended primary schools in Utilizingo and Karapul, as well as the St Gabriel's Seminary for secondary education. He had intended to study as a Catholic priest but by the time he finished high school, everything had changed. He studied broadcast journalism in college.

Personal life

Madowo is also known to be very active on social media and has a combined fanbase of over 4 million people on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Liz Madowo, a graduate of Moi University, is a stylist as well as a fashion blogger.

Madowo is also a regular moderator and speaker at international media, electronics, and company conferences.

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Larry Madowo Career

Journalism career

Madowo started attending Daystar University in Nairobi in 2006 and obtained a Communication degree. Madowo interned for a vernacular radio station Bahasha FM in 2007, receiving English-language news. Madowo quit college a year and a half behind on his degree to work with Kenya Television Network (KTN), one of Africa's oldest private television networks. He became one of Kenya's most popular celebrities, and after three years, he left KTN for NTV, where he worked as a business anchor and reporter. He joined the South African-based CNBC Africa in May 2012 as one of the key market day's top market day's top market day's key anchors, with Open Exchange, Power Lunch, and Closing Bell. His CNBC Africa time was limited, and in December 2012, he returned to NTV as the technology editor and news anchor.

Madowo returned to college and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication degree from Daystar University in June 2014.

During his second tenure at NTV Kenya, he also worked for numerous international news organizations, including CNN International, France 24 English, the BBC, and Public Radio International. The opinion piece was published on CNN's website when the Kenyan government decided not to publish a column critical of the Kenyan government's shutdown of four major private TV stations in early 2018. He ended his column and became a Contributing Columnist for the Washington Post's Global Opinions page.

Madowo was announced as the Business Editor of BBC News Africa on April 11, 2018. He led a team of business journalists based in Nairobi, London, Lagos, Dakar, and Johannesburg. He has appeared on BBC World TV, BBC World Service Radio, BBC World Service Radio, BBC News Channel, and BBC Radio 4 as a reporter or commentator on African business.

The 2019 Association of International Broadcasting Awards honoured a radio documentary by Madowo on Kenya's Chinese-built railway. (Single Report) category for a newspaper. 'Raha: The Joy of the Train' was the first installment in a series created by British production company BlokMedia's Peter Shevlin.

He was named one of the 2019–2020 Knight-Bagehot Fellows at Columbia University on April 9, 2019. Madowo said he was on a sabbatical from the BBC for his participation in Columbia Journalism School on July 29th. Madowo earned a Master of Arts in Finance and Economics Journalism from Columbia University on May 20, 2020. The Philip Greer Scholarship Award for Financial Writing was given to Jumia's master's thesis on African e-commerce pioneer Jumia's tumultuous first year on the New York Stock Exchange.

He appeared in the Guardian USA and the BBC for a brief period of time.

Madowo returned to the BBC in a new capacity as a North America Correspondent in the summer of 2020 with a study from a Coronavirus Unit in Houston, Texas. He worked for BBC World News and the BBC World Service in the United States mainly. He has published news from North Dakota, Georgia, Kentucky, New York, Louisiana, as well as South and North Carolina, among others. Joe Biden's coverage of the 2020 US election and inauguration has been acknowledged around the world.

He has interviewed some of the world's most influential people, including presidents, world-famous artists, global CEOs, and Sophia the Robot.

Madowo was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in March 2020. In June 2020, he was selected as a One Young World Journalist of the Year. According to a New African magazine, he has twice been selected as one of Africa's Top 100 Most Influential Africans. Madowo was recently ranked as one of the top 100 Most Influential Africans by New African magazine in 2020.

In December 2020, he became the first black person to deliver the Peter Stursberg International Correspondents Lecture at Carleton University in Canada. In interviews with the New Yorker and NPR, he also talked about his work as a foreign correspondent in the United States.

Madowo was appointed as CNN's Nairobi reporter in May 2021. CNN named him as the world correspondent two months later in July 2021.

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