The MCK Accreditation Service specifically fulfils the following six mandates of the MCK as drawn from the Act:

  • Promote and enhance ethical and professional standards amongst journalists and media enterprises
  • Prescribe standards of journalists, media practitioners and media enterprises
  • Develop and regulate ethical and disciplinary standards for journalists, media practitioners and media enterprises
  • Accredit journalists and foreign journalists by certifying their competence, authority or credibility against official standards based on the quality and training of journalists in Kenya including the maintaining of a register of journalists, media enterprises and such other related registers as it may deem fit and issuance of such document evidencing accreditation with the Council as the Council shall determine
  • Establish media standards and regulate and monitor compliance with the media standards
  • Compile and maintain a register of accredited journalists, foreign journalists, media enterprises and such other related registers as it may consider necessary

Specifically, the Service offers the following:

  • Accreditation of Journalists, Media Enterprises
  • Register of Accredited Journalists, Media Enterprises and Sector Stakeholders
  • Development and enforcement of accreditation guidelines and standards
  • Set and regulate ethical and disciplinary standards for the media sector

The Service is part of the Directorate of Regulatory Affairs and can be reached at accreditationatmediacouncil.or.ke