More Than A Literary Festival

Mark Lyndersay

Mark Lyndersay

Mark Lyndersay

Photographer & Reporter

Mark Lyndersay is a writer, editor and photographer based in Trinidad and Tobago.  He is the editor of TechNewsTT.com, an online news publication covering technology developments in Trinidad and Tobago founded in 2014 and writes BitDepth, a weekly column which has explored personal technology continuously over the last 26 years.  He is the editor of the OpEdTT opinion leadership section of the web publication TriniGoodMedia.com.  He writes features and between 2001 and 2016, wrote 2,000 editorial leaders for Guardian Media Limited and now writes leaders for Newsday TT.

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Old Fire Station, NALIS

Discussion: They Don’t Write Them Like They Used To

Do people read the print newspapers mostly for the columns? What should good analysis in the daily press look like? Can a column in the daily newspapers be considered “literary”? And what are the legacies of late star columnists like Keith Smith, Wayne Brown, and B.C. Pires? Marina Salandy-Brown leads a discussion on the present and future of the newspaper column.

Do people read the print newspapers mostly for the columns? What should good analysis in the daily press look like? Can a column in the daily newspapers be considered “literary”? And what are the legacies of late star columnists like Keith Smith, Wayne Brown, and B.C. Pires? Marina Salandy-Brown leads a discussion on the present and future of the newspaper column.

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