Dear readers: I am your new public editor. I succeed Karen Rothmyer, the first public editor in Kenya whose two-year tenure ended in February. Karen and I both trained at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York — and no, the Star does not deliberately recruit the public editor from the same school of journalism; I am informed that several able people from diverse backgrounds were interviewed for this job before I showed up on management’s radar. I take this job with both excitement and a touch of anxiety...
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