Orin Gor­don was ap­point­ed Ed­i­tor-in-Chief of T&T Guardian.

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-twen­ties.

As a jour­nal­ist at the BBC World Ser­vice's Caribbean Re­port, he went 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.He led the Caribbean team be­fore mov­ing on to glob­al news as a pre­sen­ter for The World To­day.

Gor­don pre­sent­ed a range of glob­al shows in­clud­ing­World Brief­ing,Out­look, Busi­ness Mat­ters and Dig­i­tal Plan­et (the tech­nol­o­gy show now called Click.)

"I'm a techie, and though I've eased up a bit now, gad­gets have been my on­ly vice," he said.

He has writ­ten as a free­lancer for news­pa­pers in­clud­ing Stabroek News, Bar­ba­dos Na­tion and theTrinidad Ex­press, and wrote a reg­u­lar col­umn on crick­et, "The An­glo Caribbean View", for Wis­den On­line and The Guardian (UK).

Gor­don holds an MA in jour­nal­ism from Cardiff Uni­ver­si­ty.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.

GML Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Lisa 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."