Citizen TV’s Willis Raburu Joins CNN

Citizen TV’s senior reporter and anchor and the brains behind “Truth Meter” Willis Raburu, is on his way to glory and it seems like he’s not going to stop anytime soon. Few months after being elevated to the post of an anchor on Kenya’s leading TV station, the towering and cheerful journalist has just joined CNN…briefly.

Willis, the son of former renowned PC during Moi’s era, Pastor Peter Raburu, joined CNN earlier this week for the journalism fellowship at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta, USA. The CNN Journalism Fellowship was launched in 1988 by CNN founder Ted Turner. More than 800 journalists, from 123 countries and 207 news organizations have participated in this highly sought after program since its inception.

While there Raburu will be exposed to;

• Insight into every aspect of CNN production including:

1. International desk deployments
2. Multi-platform newsgathering and reporting
3. Futures and special events planning
4. Emerging technologies
5. Show planning

• Individual training tailored to the participant including on-air reporting and presentation skills
• Meeting with CNN’s senior executives
• An unrivalled opportunity to build relationships with other broadcasters from around the world

Here’s Willis at CNN;

His tag says it all

Chilling with Australian anchor and correspondent for CNN International, Michael Holmes