[citation needed] Lora-Mungai started her career in 2004 at CNN's New York bureau, where she occupied various producing positions, including on the shows Paula Zahn Now and Diplomatic License with Richard Roth.
During that time, she covered the 2004 US presidential campaign and published 'Marketing Politique: Mode d'Emploi', an analysis of the political marketing techniques George W. Bush and John Kerry used.
[5] In 2009 she co-founded Buni Media, a multimedia production company, with political cartoonist Gado (Godfrey Mwampembwa) from Tanzania.
In February 2015, Lora-Mungai launched Restless Global to focus on the development and production of complex and ambitious African stories for an international audience.
[38] This study, available online, offers a mapping of the film and audiovisual industry in 54 States of the African continent, including quantitative and qualitative data and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses at the continental and regional levels.