Nancy Kacungira
Nancy Kacungira | |
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| Born | 11 October 1986 |
| Nationality | Ugandan |
| Occupation(s) | Television presenter and reporter |
| Employer | BBC |
| Known for | Co-founder of Blu Flamingo |
| Notable work | Focus on Africa (TV programme) World News Today In Business Africa |
| Relatives | Seanice Lojede (sister) |
| Awards | 2015 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award |
| Website | kacungira |
Nancy Kacungira is a Ugandan presenter and reporter at BBC News.[1] She presented Focus on Africa from 2017 to January 2019 and World Business Report on BBC World News. After a stint presenting World News Today in August 2018, she became the main presenter at 7pm weekdays and 9pm weekends from Sepotember 2019 when she is not on assginment, as part of here 19:00-01:00GMT/BST, on BBC Four, BBC News Channel and BBC World News, and has presented In Business Africa since January 2019.
Career
Kacungira began as a radio presenter while still in University, working her way up from intern to Deputy Program Director by the time she received her first class degree. She then earned her Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Leeds, where she graduated with distinction.[2]
Kacungira started her media career as a radio presenter at Power FM, a Christian radio station in Kampala, Uganda. In 2010 Kacungira together with her older sister Seanice Kacungira co-founded Blu Flamingo; a digital media management company. She moved from radio to TV at NTV Uganda as a newsreader from 2012 to 2013, after which she moved to Kenya to work for KTN News Kenya as a social media editor in late 2013.
While still at KTN News Kenya in 2015, Kacungira applied for the Komla Dumor Award, which she won and went to the BBC for three months' training.[3] She then returned to KTN News Kenya but was later hired by the BBC where she presents Focus on Africa (Mondays) and World News Today (Fridays-Saturday; alternate Sundays).
In 2016, Kacungira was one of the two moderators at the Ugandan presidential debate with another Ugandan BBC presenter Alan Kasujja.[4]
Awards
- 2015 - BBC World News Komla Dumor Award[5]
References
- ^ Chacha, Gardy (18 January 2014). "Nancy Kacungira: The new face on KTN opens up about her life journey". standardmedia.co.ke. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ "TEDxEuston | TED". www.ted.com.
- ^ "Nancy Kacungira – Profile, Education, Life History, Job History,". Kenyan Life. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
- ^ "BBC's Kasujja, Kacungira to moderate presidential debate". Daily Monitor. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ^ "Nancy Kacungira awarded the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award". BBC. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
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