Nancy Kacungira

Nancy Kacungira is a Ugandan presenter, reporter at BBC News.[1] and winner of the 2015 Komla Dumor Award. She presentedFocus on Africa from 2017 to January 2019 and World Business Report on BBC World News. Kacungira took over World News Today as the main presenter at 7pm weekdays and 9pm weekends on BBC Four, BBC News Channel and BBC World News, and now presented In Business Africa since January 2019.

Nancy Kacungira
Born (1986-10-11) 11 October 1986
Tanzania
NationalityUgandan
OccupationPresenter / Reporter at BBC
News anchor and a social media editor at KTN News Kenya
EmployerBBC
OrganizationBBC, KTN News Kenya , NTV Uganda, Power FM Uganda
Known forCo-founder of Blu Flamingo
Notable work
Focus on Africa (TV programme)
World News Today
In Business Africa
RelativesSeanice Lojede (sister)
Awards2015 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award
Websitekacungira.com

Career

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 news anchor 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.[2] She returned to KTN News Kenya after the training but was later hired at the BBC where she presents Focus on Africa (Mondays) and World Business Report on BBC World News.

In 2016, Kacungira was one of the two moderators at the Ugandan presidential debate with another Ugandan BBC presenter Alan Kasujja.[3]

Awards
  • 2015 - BBC World News Komla Dumor Award[4]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Nancy Kacungira – Profile, Education, Life History, Job History,". Kenyan Life. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  3. "BBC's Kasujja, Kacungira to moderate presidential debate". Daily Monitor. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  4. "Nancy Kacungira awarded the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award". BBC. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
Media offices
Preceded by
Philippa Thomas		 Main Presenter of World News Today
2018 – present		 Succeeded by
TBA



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