Eight years ago, the Nairobi Star (The Star) hit the streets of Nairobi with a bang. Just like its stable mate Kiss FM had earlier done to radio, the newspaper dramatically and drastically changed the local print media scene, hitting the street with a revolutionary new way of delivering news and telling stories.
On that cold July morning on Tuesday in 2007, the initial edition of the Star warmed the hearts of Nairobians by running a human interest headline story that told of an assistant minister who had confessed to procuring abortions for nuns. "I helped nuns to get abortions," screamed the page one story.
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