Joe Ageyo

Joe Ageyo is the News Editor of NTV. Joe joined NTV from KTN in February 2005 in the position of Alternate News Editor. Earlier he had worked as a news reporter and anchor for both the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, KBC and Royal Media Services. Joe is an all-round journalist having covered major stories on the continent such as the Burundi peace process, the 2006 General Election in Uganda as well as the 2007 Elections in Nigeria.  He also covered the 2002 historic election in Kenya including the horror crash involving the then Narc Presidential candidate and current president, Mwai Kibaki. As News Editor, Joe presided over the coverage of the 2005 Constitution Review referendum and the 2007 General Election. In the midst of the post election violence that followed that election, Joe travelled to Cote d’Ivoire from where he produced a documentary that pointed to vital lessons for Kenya from that West African country that was just emerging from its own civil strife. Joe is also widely acclaimed as having pioneered Environmental Journalism on television. He was the first TV journalist to start a regular slot for an environmental feature- first with Ecojournal on KTN and later C21 on NTV. In 2001 he was declared “Environmental Journalist of the Year” by the National Media Trust in recognition of his series of features on the pollution of the Nairobi River and the Sanitation Crisis in Kibera slums. In 2002 he was one of 60 journalists from around the world who won a competition staged by the World Bank to attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. He has covered important international meetings such as the11th and 12^th Sessions of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in New York in 2003 and 2004, the 3^rd World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan in 2003, the 60^th Session of the UN General Assembly in 2005 and the CITES Conference of Parties meeting in the Hague in 2007 to name a few. Joe holds a Bachelor of Agribusiness Management from Egerton University and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Mass

Communication from the School of Journalism, University of Nairobi. He also holds a certificate in Advanced Studies in Environmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

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