Trinidad Guardian
| Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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| description | National daily newspaper |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Guardian Media Limited ( Trinidad and Tobago ) |
| Headquarters | Port of Spain |
| First edition | September 2, 1917 |
| founder | Albert Cipriani, Geddes Grant, George Huggins, Norman Lamont , L. O'Reilly, Edward Pitts, A. Wight |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 40,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Julian Rogers |
| Web link | www.guardian.co.tt |
| Article archive | www.guardian.co.tt/archive |
The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian , commonly known as the Trinidad Guardian for short , is the oldest of the three daily newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago . It is published by the media group Guardian Media , which in turn belongs to the conglomerate ANSA McAL . The editorial office is in Port of Spain .
Format and edition
The Trinidad Guardian is published Monday through Saturday; The Sunday Guardian special is published on Sundays . A special target group-specific format is the weekly Business Guardian , a business newspaper. Other target group-specific special formats such as @Home , Car Talk or Job Hunters appear irregularly as free supplements in the daily newspaper.
history
In June 1917, seven Port of Spain businessmen with capital of $ 23,000 founded the Trinidad Publishing Company to publish a newspaper. The first edition, printed on a press bought second-hand from the daily newspaper The Mirror , appeared on September 2, 1917 with an edition of 1500 copies and comprised eight pages. The Guardian appeared six days a week until 1956 ; the day off publication was not Sunday, but Monday. In 1934 the Guardian Neediest Cases Fund was founded, a foundation dedicated to helping those in need. From 1935 to 1990, an evening newspaper called the Evening News appeared parallel to the Guardian , which appeared in the morning . In 1980 the editorial building burned down, but was rebuilt; production was suspended for seven months. In 1996 the Internet edition was introduced. In February of the same year, a dispute escalated between the Guardian and then Prime Minister Basdeo Panday , who had reviled the then editor-in-chief Jones P. Madeira as a racist. Panday denied the Guardian access to government information for six days. Madeira and eight other senior journalists resigned in April in protest at alleged government interference in editorial affairs. Madeira and some of the former Guardian journalists then founded the weekly newspaper The Independent . Originally the Guardian appeared in broadsheet format , a change to the tabloid format took place in 2002. In 2008 the format was reduced again. In 2010 the Trinidad Publishing Company was renamed Guardian Media Limited. In 2013, journalists resigned again because of alleged government interference in the editorial business, including the head of the public relations department. In addition to the "flagship" Trinidad Guardian, the publisher also operates five radio stations and one TV channel. The Guardian's editor-in-chief has been Julian Rogers since 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ PressReference.com: Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Trinidad has been using British money since 1879, but calculations were made in Spanish dollars in everyday life until the British West Indies dollar was introduced in 1935.
- ↑ Trinidad Guardian, September 2, 2012: The Guardian turns 95.Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Trinidad Guardian of November 13, 2007: 90 years of history. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 20, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Refworld.org: Attacks on the Press in 1996 - Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
- ^ TheGuardian.com: Journalists quit Trinidad newspaper in press freedom crisis. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
- ↑ AnsaMcAl.com: Launching of Guardian Media. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
- ^ Guardian Media announces new Managing Director, Managing Editor . In: Trinidad Guardian . 4th April 2018.
