As the world turns from syndrome culture of watching television and listening to radio waves, Kenyan youths are leading exodus of contributory factors of negating the norm
According to research done by researchgate between 1960 to 1970 on youth culture, depicted that social media make a significant contribution on online and youths have immensely influenced other demographic sphere
Majority of Kenyans students making up to millions of jobless youths, have resulted to online digital communication to get the information that will either impact them positively or console their hopelessness
Hundreds of these professionals especially those have done information and communication related courses from Universities and Tertiary Colleges have resulted to venture into online blogging just to get something in retun through Google adverts and other incentives from news sources for published stories and or from brands
Safinews.co.ke, decided to take a short online interview about the owners of these blogs and what was their primary need or their core objective in starting online blogging at a time when most traditional media houses are trying to shift to digital news presentation as audience preferences shift
“As we understand, there’s a lot of paradigm shift from traditional media outlets to digital platforms like YouTube and Newsites,” Safi News Proprietor Noted
We first interviewed the proprietor of Topnews.co.ke, Mr Geoffrey Wambua, who is a Information Technology expert from Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology and made a chilling revelations
Topnews.co.ke in the recent has been trending online on matters creating awareness to bettors over fixed bets and maximum scores
The blog unearthed conmen and conwomen behind the conspiracy of lying to gamblers that they will guarantee them sure bets whereas it’s all about fraudulent business and criminal enterprises
Mr Wambua opines that the story would later risk his life after goons started trailing him through suspicious texts messages and WhatsApp messages asking his whereabouts
Topnews.co.ke has also been informing kenyans youths on how they can make money through blogging without involving themselves in criminal activities
When asked how he ended up starting the journalism related platform whereas he’s a web developer, Wambua said that he started it for income generation as he tarmacks looking for his related career
“I was establishing websites for my clients majority of whom were journalists and social media influencers and this made me think of having my own blog to also write and publish articles there.
This has made me become a perfect article writer and in fact nobody knows whether ain’t a journalist unless I disclose,” Wambua told safinews.co.ke
The other emerging blog is The County Diary owned by Kitui based activists Yohana Kimwele who over the recent years has concentrated more on advertising and marketing individuals