The Death of Traditional Media Outlets: Newspaper and Cable TV

The Death of Traditional Media Outlets: Newspaper and Cable TV

Natassia Wright KINGSTON, Jamaica – Recently, I drove to five gas stations in search of a newspaper. Four of them told me they no longer carried them because no one was buying it. That small experience reflects a much larger regional reality. Printed newspapers and traditional cable television are steadily declining across the Caribbean. What was once a morning ritual throughout Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and the wider region is qui…