Local/Regional Journalists meet to celebrate World Press Freedom Day
Journalists from around the region gathered at the conference room of the National Insurance Services for a two day seminar, as they and their counterparts marked World Press Freedom Day.{{more}}
The conference, a collaborated effort by the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU), the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), saw the delegates discussing a number of issues that affect their profession.
These topics included the changing economics of the media, skills requirement for the 21st century media, public/state media and national development, media in a digital age, as well as media freedom and democracy.
The keynote speaker at the opening of the conference was former journalist and current Director of Public Prosecution Collin Williams, who spoke on the conferenceâs theme: 21st Century Media: New frontiers, New Barriers.
Also speaking at the opening of the seminar was heads of the ACM and CBU Wesley Gibbings and Patrick Cozier, as well as UNESCO representative Isidro Fernandez Abali.
The delegates paid tribute to journalists who had died over the past year in the line of duty with a moment of silence, and applauded those who have been imprisoned and persecuted for performing their duties as journalists.