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Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Front page of the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian (24 March 2020)
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Guardian Media Limited
Managing editorRosemarie Sant [1]
FoundedSeptember 2, 1917
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters22-24 St. Vincent Street, Port of Spain
Circulation 40,000 (2002) [2]
Website guardian.co.tt/

The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian (together with the Sunday Guardian) is the oldest daily newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago. [3] The paper is considered the newspaper of record for Trinidad and Tobago. [4] [5]

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History

Its first edition was published on Sunday 2 September 1917. The newspaper, now owned and published by Guardian Media Limited, began as a broadsheet but in November 2002 changed to tabloid format, known as the "G-sized Guardian". In June 2008, the paper changed to a smaller-size tabloid. [6] The main office of the Guardian is located at St. Vincent Street, Port of Spain, with a branch office on Chancery Lane, San Fernando, and the Head office which is located on 4-10 Rodney Road in Chaguanas. On 2 September 2017, the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian celebrated its 100th anniversary. Shortly after on 11 September 2017, the company launched a new layout. The slogan of the paper is The Guardian of Democracy.

Since 1955, according to an advertisement in Editor & Publisher , the Trinidad Publishing Co. operated the Guardian, the Sunday Guardian, and the Evening News. [7]

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References

  1. "Guardian Media announces new Managing Director, Managing Editor". Trinidad Guardian. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  2. "Trinidad and Tobago". PressReference.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  3. Jeter, James Phillip (1996). International Afro Mass Media: A Reference Guide, p. 180. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   0313284008
  4. Breiner, Laurence (November 2006). "Laureate of nowhere". Caribbean Review of Books . 10. Retrieved 10 May 2022. ..that although the Guardian is the nation's [Trinidad and Tobago] newspaper of record...
  5. Beezley, William H. (September 2021). Latin America 2020-2022 (54th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 394. ISBN   978-1475856439. The [Trinidad and Togabo] Guardian, founded in 1917, is the country's newspaper of record.
  6. Trinidad and Tobago Guardian (2 September 2012). "The Guardian turns 95". Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  7. "[advertisement]". Editor & Publisher . Duncan McIntosh. 28 February 1955. Retrieved 22 February 2021.