Media Association Trinidad and Tobago

MATT is a professional association that upholds the Fourth Estate, & is committed to retooling media workers across platforms to thrive in a digital age.

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

MATT’s statement about the passing of photojournalist Krishna Maharaj, authored by colleague Mark Lyndersay: https://t.co/qQCEnvHAHJ

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

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[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

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‘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 🇹🇹

[Patrick Kingsley @PatrickKingsley]

A statement from The New York Times.
https://t.co/8bu6wuNF4b

[Rania Zabaneh @RZabaneh]

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

[Rania Zabaneh @RZabaneh]

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.

[Ira Mathur @irasroom]

When a journalist/writer is this loved @Newsday_TT you know he did more than his job. He gave himself to the people of his country @Newsday_TT @jwilonline ♥️ ✍️ 🗞️ 🇹🇹 #journalism

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

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..
https://t.co/OdW7jDS3uE

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

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. https://t.co/bURB2dCIzs
🙏🏾

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

https://t.co/OysY8zYKAw
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 🇹🇹🗞️

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

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
https://t.co/viUNSuYtxZ 🗞️

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

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[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

https://t.co/wrQoP56VW9
‘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’🗞️

[Ira Mathur @irasroom]

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 🌊🏝️

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

@heyjudeTT @KejanHaynes Oh, this. I hate this.

[Wesley Gibbings @wgibbings]

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?

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

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

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

https://t.co/Fjhoxe9VR8 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.’

https://t.co/Fjhoxe9VR8

[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

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[Media Association Trinidad and Tobago @MediaAssocTT]

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