Joy Doreen Biira – Biography, Boyfriend, Family, Contacts
Joy Doreen Biira was born on 5th September 1986 to in Kasese. Kasese is in Rwenzururu Kingdom in Uganda. Her native language is Lukhonzo.
Joy Biira is also a Voice-over Artist, speaker, writer & part-time Editorial Print model. She currently working with KTN KENYA, the lead Television Channel in Kenya that she joined Late December 2011. Joy before moving to Kenya worked as a News anchor / Show host on NBS Television and Radio Presenter on Capital Radio Ltd 91.3 FM in Uganda, and was then among the youngest media personalities in the Anchoring Broadcast specialty of Journalism.
Joy Doreen Biira Education Background
Joy Doreen Biira completed UCE and UACE at Kyebambe Girls School in 2002 and Immaculate Heart high School in 2004 respectively.
In September 2005, Joy Doreen Biira joined Makerere University to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. She graduated in 2011.
Biira used to sneak into Mass Communication classes at the university in search of her dreams. She had applied for Mass Communication at the university, but was offered her third choice, which was BSc Information Technology. Media was however her first love.
Joy Doreen Biira Job History
From January 2012 – Present Joy Doreen Biira is an anchor, Reporter and a Showhost at KTN Nairobi, Kenya.
From July 2008 – December 201, Joy Doreen Biira was an anchor, Reporter and a Showhost at NBS Television Ltd and Capital Radio Ltd in Kampala, Uganda. She solely presented 91.3 Capital FM’s Sunday Drive a music variety show that’s informative with interviews, news & core general arts entertainment.
Joy Doreen Biira was employed as a week day Morning Show co-host at NBS Television with Shawn Kimuli, broadcasting at the network’s headquarters in the capital Kampala, Uganda.
The Morning Breeze on NBS TV, is a live broadcast of current news, Newspaper reviews, Interviews, Features and Live Entertainment just to mention a few. The show on commencement was the pioneering breakfast show on Ugandan TV air.
From January 2008 – December 2008 she worked at LAVIT, a Hospitality & Relations, Communications Company
After joining Makerere University in 2005 as an evening program student, in her first year, Joy Doreen Biira worked as a part-timer for the day hours with a Branding company (Branding Uganda Ltd) where she, at 19, dealt with operations and at the same time poached through the Mass Communication classes at University. It was there that she picked the interest in Media Arts.
This is how Joy Doreen Biira debuted in the Media Industry
Just two semesters after joining campus, opportunity came knocking. A friend asked Joy to accompany him to an audition to the newly opened NBS TV station and she ended up auditioning.
“It was not my intention to audition. After all, I barely looked the part. I was dressed in jeans, t-shirt and boots. However, amid pleas from one of the crew members who saw me along the hallway, I agreed to, at the very least, say my name in front of the camera and what a disaster it was. Instead of looking at the camera I kept glancing at the interviewers,” Joy Doreen Biira confesses.
As Joy Doreen Biira was about to leave, an answer to one final question struck a chord. When asked what she liked to watch on television, she replied she had no time for television as she was an evening student but perhaps the station could consider starting a morning show to cater for people who missed news due to their busy schedules? That same day, she got a call back asking her to report to the TV station the following day. Two weeks later, she took her place in front of the camera on Uganda’s first ever morning show. She was only 20. Over the next five years she would rise through the ranks to become one of the stations leading faces.
Joy Doreen Biira Parents
Joy Doreen Biira parents are John and Beatrice Baluku. He father is a retired medical doctor.
Joy Doreen Biira Family, Husband, Son
In 2013, while out with some friends, Joy Doreen Biira met her fiancé, Newton Kung’u. “I was taken by his personality and we ended up talking for quite a while. Thereafter, he travelled out of the country for two months but once back, we met several times and within three weeks, we were dating. In him, I found the perfect combination of gentleman, intellect and professionalism.” Joy Doreen Biira reveals
“The fact that he is in finance and outreach works for me. I am not sure dating someone in the media industry would be a good move as the glare sometimes can be very invasive,” she says.
The couple is set to do their final traditional wedding negotiations in Uganda and a wedding at a future date.
In December 2014, the couple welcomed their firstborn child, Ty Kung’u.
Joy Doreen Biira bullied on Kenya Social Media
Kenyans on Social media in December, 2015 decided to take issues personal with KTN news anchor, Joy Doreen Biira, after a popular media house did a story on their website on what the sultry screen siren’s one year old baby has taught her so far as a parent.
The media house used a photo of the anchor nearly revealing too much to an extend exposing herself while seated in a suggestive manner as the cover.
However, both the photo and the story did not go well with Kenyans on Facebook and therefore caused an uproar.
They cyber-bullied her with all manner of insults, with some even going as far as asking weird questions like whether her one year old baby is the one who taught her how to sit badly.
Joy Doreen Biira Age
Joy Doreen Biira is 30 years old as of 2016. She was born on 5th September 1986.
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Joy Doreen Biira Contacts
SKYPE: joydoreenbiira
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joydoreenbiira
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joy-Doreen-Biira/
