The Kenya Editors' Guild ( KEG)has launched the Philip Ochieng lecture on journalism.
The event that was launched in Nairobi on Wednesday will be celebrated every second Friday of May from 2022 in honour of the late veteran editor and Sunday Nation Columnist Philip Ochieng
"Kenya Editors Guild will use this platform to promote excellence in media and journalism that Philip Ochieng stood for,” KEG President Churchill Otieno.
Philip Ochieng succumbed to pneumonia on April 28th.
The inaugural lecture was staged virtually and was graced by several players in the media including East African journalist Charles Onyango Obbo, Royal Media Service Editorial Director Joe Ageyo and Standard Media Group Editor in Chief Ochieng Rapuro.
The late Ochieng served as a journalist and editor for five decades besides working in Kenya he also worked in both Uganda and Tanzania.
He will be laid to rest on Friday, May 14th at his rural home in Awendo, Migori County.
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