Award winning Citizen TV journalist Asha Mwilu has quit the media house.

Asha, a CNN African journalist of the year award winner on Friday announced that she was quitting Royal Media Services owned Citizen TV.

She revealed that she was intending to launch her own start-up, which she did not specify.

“Some personal news: I’m leaving @citizentvkenya to launch my start-up. I’ve worked under the guidance of the brilliant @jageyo@LinusKaikai@pamela_asigi and @JamilaMohamed,” she announced.

Mwilu worked as the Special Projects Editor at Citizen TV. She is also an adjunct lecturer at USIU Africa.

Before moving to Citizen TV, Mwilu was the Features and Documentaries editor at KTN News.

Mwilu has worked as a journalist for almost a decade, covering security, terrorism, governance, health, the economy and current affairs in Africa.

She holds an M.A in Documentary Practices and a B.A in Broadcast Journalism from the United States International University-Africa.

This has also won many accolades in her journalism career.

She was named the best journalist in Africa in 2016.

In October 2016, she was named CNN African Journalist of the Year, CNN International and Multichoice Africa.

Mwilu was in 2013 awarded the reporter of the year award by the Media Council of Kenya for the amazing documentary dubbed “Armies of the Underworld”.