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Media-manager and proprietor, businessman, cupboard minister advert inveterate fighter for press freedom, this can be the lifestyles tale of Ken Gordon, Trinidad and Tobago local and Caribbean guy. Written within the frank, hard-hitting and uncompromising variety which characterised Gordon's method all through his multi-faceted profession, the booklet takes us into the boardroom of company Trinidad and the halls of presidency and exposes the charged but gentle interaction of race family members in a multi-ethnic society. however it is the fervour for press freedom that's the concentration of Ken Gordon's autobiography.

Getting it Write: successful Caribbean Press Freedom has to split yet similar dimensions. starting with the fight to set up the specific as a workable newspaper of autonomous notion in Trinidad and Tobago, the adventure outfitted him good to assist with the establishing of comparable newspapers in Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica and within the procedure move keep watch over of the media into the palms of neighborhood possession. within the phrases of Caribbean highbrow Lloyd top, "We see greater than a occupation which molded exhibit right into a company complicated on Independence sq.; we additionally think the cool within which an intensive new idea of Caribbean-wide media was once known as into existence."

The moment size concerned the conflict opposed to the politicians and their encroachment on press freedom. Gordon's fierce competition to such encroachments introduced him into head-on collision with successive governments and entrenched enterprise pursuits not just in Trinidad yet in Grenada, Guyana and in other places within the Caribbean.

Ken Gordon has labored within the media for almost 5 a long time. beginning his profession as a published journalist, he has been all for each element of his career - radio, tv and newspapers. On changing into CEO of a suffering convey newspaper, he was once answerable for remodeling it in C.C.N., the Caribbean's biggest media condo. He additionally performed a key position in developing an indigenous privately owned media in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica, and used to be accountable for the founding of CANA - the Caribbean information business enterprise. His contribution to this occupation has been greatly stated and he's the recipient of various awards, together with the Pedro Joaquim Chamorro Award, the Lord Astor Award, the Columbia college Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal and the Media organization of Trinidad and Tobago provider attractiveness Award. Mr. Gordon lives in Trinidad along with his spouse and family.