Received With Open Arms: Olive Burrows Speaks On Joining Citizen TV

Former NTV prime-time news anchor, Olive Burrows, expressed her excitement after she made her big-money move to Royal Media Services (RMS) TV station, Citizen TV, which is poised to take her career to new heights.

Burrows makes her debut tonight, Saturday, June 1 on the Citizen Weekend show and will follow up with a debut on Sunday, June 2 during the Sunday Live show where she will be paired with acclaimed journalist, Jeff Koinange.

She will be a constant feature on Saturdays and Sundays, replacing Victoria Rubadiri who left the country's biggest TV station for a stint at the international media house, CNN, in April.

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Burrows remarked looking forward to her next challenge as she ensured that she would promote accountability as well as embrace professionalism and excellence in her line of duty.

Regarding Citizen Weekend, she promises to bring to light global events from a Kenyan's point of view, a matter that gathered significant momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I am incredibly honoured to have joined the team. They have received me with open arms. And as iron sharpens iron, I look forward to a season of growth," she told Citizen Digital.

"As a journalist, I'm keen to promote good governance and accountability with my news reports and on Citizen Weekend you can expect to get the Kenyan perspective on global events. And if there's anything the COVID pandemic taught us, it's that we are never far removed from places we once thought were far removed from our part of the world."

Viral Tea earlier learnt that Burrows was tipped to replace Rubadiri in the role, a matter which has seen RMS be successful in luring her away from the Nation Media Group (NMG). 

This is ironically a case of de ja vu as Rubadiri in 2018 joined RMS from NMG and became a huge success at the TV station. In 2020, Rubadiri was awarded the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award for her exceptional talent in telling African stories.

Burrows joined NTV in May 2018, having served as a journalist at Capital FM, where she was the only scribe in the whole country to interview former U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Kenya in 2015.

She began her career as a freelance magazine writer during her studies at Daystar University, then joined Capital FM news desk as a reporter where she rose through the ranks to associate editor.