I’ve dealt with journalists from four different countries these last two weeks: The Japanese journalists were very polite and paid a rather large sum for an interview. The British and American journalists paid for dinner and drinks (many).

The Kenyan journalist didn’t want to cover our story and in fact wanted to do a feature on the lodge next-door. He called every day for a week until I eventually went to the lodge to take photos which I emailed to him in Nairobi. From where, the journalist made up a story about his stay at the lodge, and then once published he sms’d me every day for the next week, asking me to mpesa him a 1000 bob as payment.

Does anyone know if a Standard journalist gets a salary?

Hope you had a good Easter Rob.