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This is not the time to not know what you’re talking about

19-Sep-08

Several months ago, I bemoaned T&T’s “apparent lack of reporters who actually understand business, finance, law”. The absence of sufficiently qualified finance and business reporters from the halls of T&T’s newsrooms is even more galling now, as the global financial crisis deepens. And make no mistake, it is a crisis – one that few people [...]

The T&T Guardian needs more than a cosmetic change

13-Jun-08

For the sake of my blood pressure, I try not to read the local newspapers. This is difficult, given my obsession with news and media and my day job as a reporter, and more often than not I succumb. And each time I pick up a copy of the Trinidad Express, or the Guardian, or [...]

Says who? (or, why bylines matter)

21-Mar-08

Trinidadian newspapers infuriate me. I’ve already written at length about their lack of a systematic corrections policy, and the superficiality of much of our reporting; today’s bugbear is their casual approach to bylines. In the context of a newspaper article, a byline is simply the name and often, the title or position of the person(s) [...]

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