Renowned journalist Rita Tinina is dead.
Tinina’s body was found at her Kileleshwa apartment in Nairobi on Sunday midday.
Tinina was supposed to be on duty at NTV on Sunday but she did not show up.
Her colleagues could not reach her on phone which prompted her Managers to launch search at her house in Kileleshwa where they found her body.
Nation Media Group (NMG) which owns NTV is yet issue an official statement about Tinina’s death.
Police could not immediately establish the cause of her death.
Tinina with over 16 years in the media industry, sharpened her career at Kimathi street twin-tower building that hosts NTV. She developed interest in Social and gender issues, and she later keenly followed the environment, wildlife and tourism docket.
Tinina would later ditch NTV and join KTN News together with her Editors Joe Ageyo and James Smart, the Standard Group raid at NTV would also see other senior journalists among them Ben Kitili and Linda Ogutu also join KTN News.
The whole team later returned to NTV after Joe Ageyo left Citizen TV and returned to NTV, recruiting back Kitili, Smart and in October last year Tinina returned home (NTV) where she continued with her cross-cutting reporting.
Her collected voice, fluency in reporting, calm and calculated physical appearance when on Piece to Camera and well-researched stories ranging from environment, social, gender, Wildlife and tourism would make one follow her reporting.
“Indeed it’s sad but we are confirming the death of our colleague Rita Tinina,” said one of her colleagues at NTV.
Police are investigating the cause of her death.
