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The Daily Nation is a Kenyan daily newspaper based in Nairobi. It was founded in 1958 and is published by Nation Media Group.
It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to most of its online articles and content.
An English language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by former editor of the British News Chronicle, Michael Curtis.
The publisher was East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, which later became the Nation Media Group, with operations throughout the African Great Lakes region.
Goans Kenyan journalist Cyprian Fernandes worked at the Daily Nation and Sunday Nation from 1960 until he was forced to flee Kenya around 1973, owing to his investigative journalism probing irregularities which came too close to the government under Jomo Kenyatta, and his family was threatened. By that time he was chief reporter. He was one of the first Kenyan-born reporters at the paper.
Another well-known sports writer in the 1960s at the paper was Polly Fernandes.
It is one of the leading newspapers in Kenya.
One of its main competitors in 2014 was The Standard, published by the Standard Group.
The daily first turned a profit in 1968, and by 1970, was selling over 46, 000 copies per issue.
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