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Icon Media was founded in October 3rd 2017 by Shafi Sekalala and James Yongo, originally founded as Icon News. Icon Media is a liberal news outlet that specializes in long thought pieces on sport and politics. Icon Media has been a vessel to create news and journalism projects under the Icon Media trademark. Icon Media had the more broader known ego of Icon News.

Icon Founding
Icon Media (News) was founded in 2017 by two students, Shafi Sekalala, and James Yongo, as a means of sharing news articles and talking up discussions on campus (St Andrews School Turi).

Inspired by journalists from Vox and the New York Times, in January 2018, Icon Media (then, Icon News) went commercial. Icon had faced criticism in the early beginnings, Icon was branded as a news platform for younger people where actual discussions can be made.