Guardian Me­dia’s Com­mer­cial Head Steve Dip­nar­ine say the com­pa­ny re­mains the leader in lo­cal news con­tent.

Dip­nar­ine made the com­ment as he and Guardian Me­dia Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Dr Kar­ri­an Hep­burn Mal­colm were on hand at the com­pa­ny’s print­ing plant in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day, to over­see the run-off of the 105th an­niver­sary spe­cial edi­tion of the news­pa­per, which was done on spe­cial 33-inch broad­sheet pa­per in com­mem­o­ra­tion of the T&T Guardian’s 105th an­niver­sary.

Dip­nar­ine said the T&T Guardian had evolved since it first came off the press on Sep­tem­ber 2, 1917.

He ex­plained that the brand has be­come more rel­e­vant to the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty, as it has ex­pand­ed be­yond print and in­to the on­line realm, where it reach­es 6 mil­lion read­ers month­ly.

Dip­nar­ine added that the so­cial me­dia plat­form puts the news in­to the hands of over 400,000 fol­low­ers plus the 40,000 sub­scribers who re­ceive news alerts.

He said the brand would con­tin­ue to evolve and re­main rel­e­vant not on­ly lo­cal­ly but across the globe, par­tic­u­lar­ly among the T&T di­as­po­ra.

Dip­nar­ine said the cir­cu­la­tion is cur­rent­ly the high­est in the news­pa­per’s 105-year his­to­ry and the hard­copy is the most sub­scribed news­pa­per in the coun­try.

He not­ed that sev­er­al changes took place over the decades as the T&T Guardian fo­cused on ar­eas of busi­ness with the Busi­ness Guardian, the Health and Ed­u­ca­tion seg­ments and re­cent­ly Guardian in Com­mu­ni­ties.

Dr Mal­com Hep­burn said the spe­cial edi­tion will fea­ture in­for­ma­tion about the his­to­ry of T&T as well as the com­pa­ny. She said it will al­so give young peo­ple a taste of what the broad­sheet news­pa­per was like.

The print­ers be­gan ear­ly prepa­ra­tion of the mas­sive rolls of pa­per that had just the cor­rect pati­na to cre­ate the broad­sheet look and feel of times gone by. The press start­ed churn­ing out copies of the broad­sheet at mid­day.