Guardian Media Limited has appointed Orin Gordon to the position of Editor-In-Chief of the T&T Guardian newspaper. The appointment was announced by Guardian Media Limited (GML) managing director Lisa Agard yesterday. Gordon, a former BBC journalist, has had more than 25 years in journalism across all media platforms, starting with the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation, where he became editor-in-chief in 1992 while in his mid-20s.
After securing an MA in journalism from Cardiff University, he joined the BBC World Service’s Caribbean Report. In the team’s trademark tough interviewing style, he has gone one-on-one with three T&T prime ministers, more than a dozen others throughout the Caribbean, as well as other key politicians and decision makers.Gordon led the Caribbean team before moving on to global news as a presenter for The World Today.
He has presented a range of global shows, including World Briefing, Outlook, Business Matters and Digital Planet (the technology show now called Click). He has also been on air for big events, such as the 2004 tsunami and covered a war zone, Haiti, for BBC global news.
The new EIC has written as a freelancer for several newspapers, including Stabroek News, Barbados Nation and the Trinidad Express, and wrote a regular column on cricket, “The Anglo Caribbean View,” for Wisden Online and The Guardian (UK). After taking an MBA at Oxford, he started a business as a media trainer, while remaining a freelance reporter/analyst with BBC radio, TV and online.
Speaking about his appointment yesterday, Gordon said: “I’m a techie, and though I’ve eased up a bit now, gadgets have been my only vice.” Commenting about the appointment, Agard said: “I am delighted to have Orin join the Guardian Media team as we continue to transform the media landscape to embrace the new digital reality and to build upon the Guardian newspaper as the guardian of democracy in Trinidad and Tobago.”