Paul Wafula is a senior investigative reporter with the Standard Media Group with over five year’s experience as a business and investigative journalist.  He has held various positions as news editor in different Newspaper publications like Hillman publisher and New Star Television Network where he has published countless business stories.

His zeal for storytelling has earned him many accolades and the most recent one being the best tourism reporter, print, in the 2011 Media Council of Kenya awards

On why he applied for Internews health and data journalism fellowship he says:  “I will be able to do better stories with support from data. At the end of the fellowship investigative stories will be much easier because data will point me in the right direction.”

Driven by too many questions on health financing in a devolved system of government, The Standard Investigative Journalist Paul Wafula and Internews fellow turned to data journalism for answers. The result is a cross platform, multimedia story Change for Health that was published as a series in The Standard newspaper and on Standard Digital.

Wafula's stories;

Fellow Paul Wafula and The Standard Journalist produced an incredible data driven story that exposed the challenges and corruption dogging the safety net national programme introduced by the Government six years ago for people with severe disabilities, the elderly, the urban hungry, orphans and vulnerable children to help them buy food and meet primary healthcare needs. His series: Robbing the poor was published as the headline story in the Daily Standard as the headline story from January 15-16.

The story triggered a reaction from Labour cabinet secretary Kazungu Kambi, in whose docket the project falls. He admitted that greedy people were stealing the cash meant for the poor and since then the cabinet secretary has launched a vetting committee that will develop a more rigorous vetting process for applicants.

Driven by too many questions on health financing in a devolved system of government, The Standard Investigative Journalist Paul Wafula and Internews fellow turned to data journalism for answers. The result is a cross platform, multimedia story Change for Health that was published as a series in The Standard newspaper and on Standard Digital.