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Thursday, July 24, 2025

MCC pays tribute to media pioneer

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The Me­dia Com­plaints Coun­cil of T&T (MCC) yes­ter­day ex­pressed con­do­lences to fam­i­ly, friends and the me­dia fra­ter­ni­ty on the pass­ing of Therese Mills, the ex­ec­u­tive chair­man/CEO of News­day.In a re­lease yes­ter­day, the MCC de­scribed Mills as a woman of im­mense courage, for­ti­tude and a pi­o­neer in the field of Caribbean jour­nal­ism.

"She was forth­right in de­fence of me­dia free­dom and in­de­pen­dence in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider world. Ms Mills played a piv­otal role in the es­tab­lish­ment of the MCC in 1997 at a time when there was gen­er­al pub­lic con­cern for me­dia re­form, af­ter the then gov­ern­ment pro­duced a Green Pa­per on the me­dia," the re­lease stat­ed.

This pa­per, the MCC ex­plained, pro­posed adop­tion of sta­tus­es that re­quired jour­nal­ists to re­port with "due ac­cu­ra­cy and im­par­tial­i­ty." The T&T Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) al­so saw the need to es­tab­lish an in­de­pen­dent body charged with en­forc­ing a self-adopt­ed code of prac­tice.

"This body would pro­mote and en­force stan­dards of fair and re­spon­si­ble jour­nal­ism and pro­tect the in­de­pen­dence of jour­nal­ists by hold­ing them ac­count­able to their col­leagues and their pro­fes­sion and not to the gov­ern­ment. Thus a code of prac­tice was adopt­ed and the MCC was cre­at­ed to en­force this code and to re­ceive and ad­ju­di­cate on com­plaints made by mem­bers of the pub­lic."

The re­lease con­tin­ued: "Mills en­vi­sioned that the MCC would help main­tain pub­lic trust and con­fi­dence in the news me­dia by pro­mot­ing fair­ness, cour­tesy and bal­ance and by cre­at­ing a fo­rum where the pub­lic and the news me­dia can en­gage each oth­er in ex­am­in­ing stan­dards of jour­nal­is­tic fair­ness."


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