Veteran Caribbean journalist Julius Gittens touches on issues of media ownership [1] and calls for reflections on the adequacy of the existing structures and for ideas to spawn new ones…he is also sceptical of the notion that technology has reduced the need for conventional journalism: “Already in the Caribbean…so-called social media have made traditional media obsolete…the citizen as personal curator has no further need for curated information provided by the journalist.”
Barbados: Media Ownership
· Written by Matthew Hunte
Categories: Caribbean, Central Asia & Caucasus, Barbados, Citizen Media, Media & Journalism, Technology