Alphonce Shiundu
Verified- Kenya Editor, Africa Check
- Journalist, Freelance
- Contributor, D+C Development and Cooperation
Nairobi
As seen in:
Africa Check,
D+C Development and Cooperation,
Substack,
Miami Herald,
Business Report,
Daily Nation,
Nairobi News,
Kenya Television Network,
The Standard (Kenya),
TimesLIVE,
AllAfrica,
The East African
and
Covers:
Disinformation and information integrity in Africa; fact-checking; OSINT; foreign influence operations; AI and synthetic media; health misinformation; African politics, elections and public policy.
Doesn't Cover:
No product launches, PR announcements, crypto, betting, sport, entertainment or lifestyle. I don't accept paid placements or advertorial
Founding Kenya Editor @AfricaCheck. Disinformation, #FIMI, OSINT & AI literacy in Africa. Writer. Editor. Politics. Parliament. Policy.
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Alphonce Shiundu’s Biography
Read Full Bio →I am the founding Kenya Editor of Africa Check, Africa's first independent fact-checking organisation. I set up the country office in 2017 and have run it since, building the team, partnerships and programmes that have trained more than 15,000 people across 15+ African countries.
My foundation is political journalism: over a decade covering Kenya's Parliament, legislation and public policy at Nation Media Group and The Standard Group, including an investigation exposing how weapons were smuggle…
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Interview
See all 10 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
General news reporter
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes, back when I started.
How is social media changing news?
The honest answer from where I sit in Nairobi is that social media has changed less about how news is made than about who gets believed.