Shameful lack of diversity among sports journalists.

Do politicians, propagandists, and other players understand that in undermining and plotting the demise of mainstream #media they are placing themselves and others in human rights jeopardy?

MATT joins with media globally to commemorate #WorldPressFreedomDay2023 . This is a reminder by Wesley Gibbings to remain eternally vigilant .

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mediatt.org/2023/05/02/wor… TT 🇹🇹journalists must be lauded as #TrinidadandTobago moved up in the World Press Freedom ranking by Reporters sans Frontières (RSF or Reporters Without Borders) ranking by six points from 31 to 25 out of 180 countries.’ mediatt.org/2023/05/02/wor…

The burden disinformation on social media places on the freedom of the press. Irving Ward T&T Guardian ‘s editor weighs in on #WorldPressFreedomDay2023

Poet & writer Raoul Pantin wrote on being hostage (1990 attempted coup) refused a job with PM Dr Eric Williams, drank with Michael X (unaware the revolutionary murdered Gail Benson- English socialite featured in VS Naipaul’s famous novel Guerrillas) 📚 🗞️ #TrinidadandTobago 🌊🏝️

technewstt.com/bd1416-journal… ‘For several years, I was a newspaper delivery boy, developing something of a craft at the folding & throwing of newspapers so they landed where a reader might find them without destroying their plant pots. I delivered for both the Express & Guardian’🗞️

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the AG was being deliberately provocative in his statements which challenged the role of journalism as The Fourth Estate & questioned the role of bloggers & social media in the context of the responsibilities of journalists. ##journalism 🇹🇹#FourthEstate mediatt.org/2023/09/08/mat… 🗞️

newsday.co.tt/2023/09/08/mat… MATT upholds the principle that journalists are equipped & capable of self-policing "without the need for regulation, government oversight or any other unwelcome effort to constrain the free expression guaranteed by the TT constitution #journalism 🇹🇹🗞️

MATT stands in solidarity with our colleagues in Jamaica as The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) condemns the reprehensible attack on Nationwide News Network (NNN) in St Andrew.. a gunman on a motor bike fired gunshots into the station’s parking lot. mediatt.org/2023/09/11/ja-… 🙏🏾

Long-tail #journalism services a very different user need. Using the initial reporting as a starting point, it reaches deeper into the material that is trimmed.. newsday.co.tt/2023/09/11/the…

When a journalist/writer is this loved T&T Newsday you know he did more than his job. He gave himself to the people of his country T&T Newsday Journal of West Indian Literature ♥️ ✍️ 🗞️ 🇹🇹 #journalism

We can’t take it anymore, we’re exhausted… We’re gonna get killed, it’s just a matter of when. There’s no protection, no impunity. These PPEs don’t protect us. Nothing protects journalists. We lose lives, one by one… Mohammed Abu Hatab was here, half an hour ago.

CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 35 journalists were killed in Gaza since 7 OCT.

A statement from The New York Times. nytco.com/press/statemen…

newsday.co.tt/2023/11/20/mat… ‘journalists and editors in TT are simply overworked, often underpaid and contend with adversity in their professional lives without due recognition or respect.’ #journalists 🗞️#TrinidadAndTobago 🇹🇹

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MATT’s statement about the passing of photojournalist Krishna Maharaj, authored by colleague Mark Lyndersay: mediatt.org/2024/09/08/kri…