Kenyan media personality Larry Madowo has finally graduated from Columbia University School of Journalism after completing his master’s program.
Madowo, a business editor at BBC Africa, joined the prestigious New York-based university in April 2019 as a Knight-Bagehot fellow to undertake a master’s degree.
He was among the 10 beneficiaries of the 44th Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business and Economics at the Columbia Journalism School.
Madowo, through Twitter on Friday announced he has finally graduated.
“My in-person graduation from @Columbia was delayed by 2 years but it was still special. I came back to New York to confirm that my master’s in Business & Economics Journalism was real. It is & they haven’t changed their minds”
Madowo had earlier indicated he is co-authoring an MBA case study on the same at Columbia Business School.
“I spent months reporting on Jumia’s first year on the NYSE from Lagos, Berlin, New York for my Columbia Master thesis. My 9000-word piece just won the 2020 Philip Greer award,” Madowo wrote on his Twitter page.
Madowo, who joined BBC from NTV in 2018, thanked Bloomberg News Executive Editor Winnie O’Kelley, a professor of business journalism at Columbia, for her support in authoring the award-winning thesis.
