NTV's Joe Ageyo Promoted In New Changes

NTV's Editorial Director - Broadcasting, Joe Ageyo, has been handed a new role at the Nation Media Group (NMG) months after joining the media house from Citizen TV.

In an internal memo seen by Viral Tea, Ageyo was promoted to the Group's Editorial Director (GED) on Friday, November 4.

Under his new role, Ageyo will be responsible for driving newsroom transformation and managing all editorial operations.

A photo of Nation Media Group. /BUSINESS TODAY

He replaced Mutuma Mathiu, who was moved to the Consulting Editor (CE) and will support Ageyo on specific editorial projects.

Mathiu was on February 1, 2022, appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief as part of the redefinition of editorial leadership to reflect the increasingly more multi-platform and multi-national nature of NMG’s editorial operations.

This was to ensure that he provides effective strategic editorial stewardship straddling journalism, commercial, technology and stakeholder management for all the Group’s business units in Kenya, the region and beyond. He reported to the Group CEO.

Other changes include Monicah Ndungu who was appointed the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Richard Tobiko as the Chief Finance Officer (CFO). The position of Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) was however left vacant.

Ageyo joined NTV in March 2022 and has been in charge of the editorial functions of NMG’s broadcast operations in Kenya across multimedia platforms.

He served in the same capacity at Royal Media Services (RMS), having joined in 2018 as the company was restructuring following the exit of his predecessor and former Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Farida Karoney.

“I leave tonight an extremely proud man, proud of the mountains we’ve scaled together, proud of the many shoulders there were to lean on when the ride took us to the valley. I have had the privilege of leading the most formidable news team on Kenyan television, the most diverse news team on radio and no doubt a force to reckon with in the digital space too. A salute to my fellow directors and the teams they lead,” he stated during his final NewsGang show on Thursday, March 10.

“And finally, to the ever-vigilant public without whom, this job would be worthless. Thank you for keeping me on toes. But tonight, I must step out, to answer to a new calling, true to the Shakespearean wisdom that “all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.”

Since then, Ageyo has featured high-profile individuals in his interviews on NTV, including a recent one by Miguna Miguna which almost went south on his part.

Joe Ageyo with Miguna Miguna during an NTV interview on October 21, 2022. /NTV DIGITAL