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Mark Oloo

Mark Oloo is a Kenya journalist, working in Nairobi and covering socio-economic issues in Eastern Africa. He has had a stint at various media organisations including the USA Today and the Kenya News Agency. He interned at the Tallahassee Democrat Newspaper in Florida-USA as an International Journalism Exchange (IJE) fellow under the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) and the Washington-based International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ). During the time, he took part as guest speaker at the Florida A&M University's school of Journalism on various topical media issues. He has also been an associate editor of Business at Kenya Times Newspaper. He worked closely with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 2006 in Singapore to assess how the media would be mainstreamed in global economic issues. Mr Oloo, who is also a former Reuters Foundation fellow in Ghana has a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of Nairobi. He has a Bachelors degree in Media technology from Maseno University.