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Protus is a Kenyan journalist based in Nairobi. He has 15 years of experience in journalism and works for the 115 year-old Standard Group PLC. He writes on politics, development, health, education, agriculture and environment with a specific interest in climate change. He is a green economy champion and his stories on socio-economic topics like land, water and housing have necessitated policy reviews. Protus has won many international awards and trainings in investigative journalism. In 2013, he won an award by Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR) and the US based Oakland Institute to do an investigative story on land grabs in Africa. In 2014, he attended the cross examination course for investigative journalists by Kenya Media Programme and the University of Johannesburg. In 2017, Protus attended a six-month ‘Tell the Story – Investigative and Conflict Sensitive Reporting’ sponsored by Deutsche Welle (DW) Akademie. In 2017, he attended Thomson Reuters Foundation training for journalists to understand how their country could be losing money via illicit means. In 2018, he was awarded the 2018 Journalist Grant from Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) to attend the conference World Water Week in Stockholm. He is currently a Bertha Fellow, sponsored by the UK-based Bertha Foundation. Together with 16 Fellows from across the globe, the team is looking at how land and housing injustice can be solved in the world.Protus has also successfully coordinated the PAMACC/SouthSouthNorth one-year project on the dissemination of Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa (WISER) stories in East Africa. The project was sponsored by Wiser UK. The project involved writing stories on weather in East Africa by six journalists.He studied Media and Ethnicity in Kenya at the United States International University, Africa and Journalism at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communications.

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