Nation Media Group is a Kenyan media group listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange

Nairobi Stock Exchange

The Nairobi Securities Exchange is the principal stock exchange of Kenya. It began in 1954 as an overseas stock exchange while Kenya was still a British colony with permission of the London Stock Exchange. The NSE is a member of the African Stock Exchanges Association...

.http://stockskenya.com/newsite/stkprofiler.aspx?stkId=10 NMG was founded by Aga Khan IV

Aga Khan IV

Prince Karim, Aga Khan IV, NPk, NI, KBE, CC, GCC, GCIH, GCM is the 49th and current Imam of the Shia Imami Nizari Ismaili Muslims. He has held this position under the title of Aga Khan since July 11, 1957, when, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan...

 in 1959 and is the largest private media house in East

East Africa

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...

 and Central Africa

Central Africa

Central Africa is a core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda....

 with offices in Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

, Uganda

Uganda

Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

, and Tanzania

Tanzania

The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

.http://www.nation.co.ke/meta/-/1194/1172/-/ojmv8c/-/index.html In 1999, NMG launched NTV, a news channel in Kenya, and Easy FM

Easy FM (Kenya)

Easy FM, formerly known as Nation FM, is an English-speaking national radio station based in Nairobi, Kenya. It is owned by the Nation Media Group.- FM frequencies :*Nairobi 96.3*Mombasa 101.5*Kisumu 102.1*Nyeri 104.9*Eldoret 102.7*Nakuru 97.7*Meru 93.9...

.http://www.nation.co.ke/meta/-/1194/1172/-/ojmv8c/-/index.html

The group publishes The EastAfrican

The EastAfrican

The EastAfrican is a weekly newspaper published in Kenya by the Nation Media Group, which also publishes Kenya's national Daily Nation. The EastAfrican is circulated in Kenya and the other countries of East Africa including Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda...

, Daily Nation

Daily Nation

The Daily Nation is a Kenyan independent newspaper. It is the most influential newspaper in Kenya with a daily circulation of about 205,000 copies. The total readership is likely to be higher as each copy is read by a large number of people...

(Kenya's largest newspaper), The Business Daily, Daily Monitor

The Monitor (Uganda)

The Daily Monitor is Uganda’s leading independent daily newspaper. The "Monitor" name is shared by the Saturday Monitor and Sunday Monitor, which are also published by Monitor Publications Limited. It has an online readership of over 1,000,000.The newspaper was established in 1992 as The Monitor...

, The Citizen, NMG Investor Briefing, Taifa Leo

Taifa Leo

Taifa Leo is the only Swahili language newspaper published from Kenya. It was founded in 1958. It is published by the Nation Media Group....

and Zuqka. The Daily Nation

Daily Nation

The Daily Nation is a Kenyan independent newspaper. It is the most influential newspaper in Kenya with a daily circulation of about 205,000 copies. The total readership is likely to be higher as each copy is read by a large number of people...

and the Sunday edition of the same newspaper, the Sunday Nation, are currently celebrating their 50th anniversaries

Golden Jubilee

A Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary.- In Thailand :King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, celebrated his Golden Jubilee on 9 June 1996.- In the Commonwealth Realms :...

, branded by the Nation Media Group as 50 Golden Years.NMG owns a 76.5% stake in the Monitor newspapers & KFM (a leading FM station) in Uganda and 60% of the Mwananchi Communications Ltd in Tanzania. The two outfits have added a significant amount in the group’s revenue, and Monitor Publications Ltd (including KFM) returned handsome profits last year. Mwananchi Communications Ltd (including Mwananchi, Mwanaspoti and the Citizen) are on a path to profitability.

External links

• Nation Media Group
• 2008 annual report
• The Citizen newspaper website - The official website for The Citizen Tanzania newspaper!
• The Mwananchi newspaper website - The official website for Mwananchi Tanzania Newspaper!
• The Mwanaspoti newspaper website - The official website for Mwanaspoti Tanzania newspaper!
• Mwananchi Communications Ltd website - The official website for Mwananchi Communications Ltd, our subsidiary in Tanzania!