{"id":176860,"date":"2024-07-19T07:12:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T05:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-editors-guild-demands-deployment-of-police-to-media-houses-after-social-media-threats-on-rms-journalists\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T05:12:40","slug":"kenya-editors-guild-demands-deployment-of-police-to-media-houses-after-social-media-threats-on-rms-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-editors-guild-demands-deployment-of-police-to-media-houses-after-social-media-threats-on-rms-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Editors Guild Demands Deployment of Police to Media Houses After Social Media Threats On RMS Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Editors&#8217; Guild wants the government to provide security to media houses following recent attacks during the ongoing youth led protests.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">KEG President Zubeidah Kananu in a statement asserted that she was concerned about threats being directed toward the media from various quotas, terming them as aspects that undermine journalists&#8217; safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">&#8220;The Guild would like to condemn the threats being peddled on social media by anonymous individuals, who have also threatened to storm the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407180680.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Editors&#8217; Guild wants the government to provide security to media houses following recent attacks during the ongoing youth led protests. KEG President Zubeidah Kananu in a statement asserted that she was concerned about threats being directed toward the media from various quotas, terming them as aspects that undermine journalists&#8217; safety. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6979,16062,12977,34201,7664,1654,4688,430,4959,257,662,49078,3577,254,7611],"class_list":["post-176860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demands","tag-deployment","tag-editors","tag-guild","tag-houses","tag-journalists","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-media","tag-news","tag-police","tag-rms","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}