Marko Gideon received his Bachelor degree in Mass Communication from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda in 1999. He was a mentee at the UNDP funded Sustainable Cities Programme from 1998 to 2001 where he was in charge of report writing and translation from English to Swahili and contributing articles in the Programme’s quarterly newsletter. He was at the University of Dar es Salaam from 2001 to 2002 pursuing Postgraduate Diploma in Scientific Computing.
He joined the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Tanzania Chapter as Information/Research Officer in June 2002, largely responsible for media monitoring programme, coordinator of media support programme – enhancing media professionalism and accountability and also coordinator of communication and publication strategy of the chapter. He received Certificate on Online Publishing from the Radio Nederland Training Centre, Hilversum, The Netherlands in 2005.
In October 2002 he became a trans-editor and local correspondent for the Inter Press Services (IPS) Africa Service, trans-editing at least 30 English stories into Swahili per month and writing at least one local story per week. In April 2006, his duty was expanded to include trans-editing at least one story per week from the Emirates News Agency (WAM) - the duty that he undertakes until to-date.
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