Sampson Nanton
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Sampson Nanton is an award-winning journalist and television news presenter
in Trinidad and Tobago
. He is currently the Deputy Head of News and Co-Anchor at CNC3 Television.
TV6
in Trinidad as a senior reporter. He left CCN TV6
in August 2005 to become a founding member of Cable News Channel 3. He served as Assignment Editor with the station until his resignation in September 2006 following leaked sexual images. In February 2007 he rejoined Cable News Channel 3 as a Producer of The Early Morning Show before moving on to the position of Senior News Producer. In November 2010, Nanton was appointed Deputy Head of News of CNC3. He is also a News Presenter on the station's 7pm newscast.
News presenter
A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...
in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
. He is currently the Deputy Head of News and Co-Anchor at CNC3 Television.
Career history
Nanton has 15 years experience in print and broadcast journalism. He began his career in journalism in 1996 as a business reporter with the Daily Newsday in Trinidad and relocated to Tobago to serve as head of operations at the Daily Newsday's Tobago Bureau in July 2001. For seven years he reported in the fields of politics, health and education while at the Newsday. In April 2003 Nanton joined Caribbean Communications NetworkCaribbean Communications Network
The Caribbean Communications Network Ltd. also known as the "CCN Group" Ltd., is a subsidiary of ONE Caribbean Media Limited. In December, 2005 both the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Communications Network and the Barbados-based Nation Corporation entered into a merger agreement for...
TV6
CCN TV6
The Caribbean Communications Network Television 6 ' is the largest private television broadcaster in Trinidad and Tobago. The station operates an analog composite NTSC 525 television system, broadcasting on channels 6 and 18 in the island of Trinidad, channel 5 on the Flow Cable System and channel...
in Trinidad as a senior reporter. He left CCN TV6
CCN TV6
The Caribbean Communications Network Television 6 ' is the largest private television broadcaster in Trinidad and Tobago. The station operates an analog composite NTSC 525 television system, broadcasting on channels 6 and 18 in the island of Trinidad, channel 5 on the Flow Cable System and channel...
in August 2005 to become a founding member of Cable News Channel 3. He served as Assignment Editor with the station until his resignation in September 2006 following leaked sexual images. In February 2007 he rejoined Cable News Channel 3 as a Producer of The Early Morning Show before moving on to the position of Senior News Producer. In November 2010, Nanton was appointed Deputy Head of News of CNC3. He is also a News Presenter on the station's 7pm newscast.
Career highlights
- Nanton has served as a panelist on media affairs on several occasions and has participated in dozens of seminars on journalism across the Caribbean and the United States, with the Reuters Foundation, the Thomson Foundation, the Commonwealth Broadcasting AssociationCommonwealth Broadcasting AssociationFounded in 1945, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association is a representative body for public service broadcasters throughout the Commonwealth. A not-for-profit non-government organisation, the CBA is funded by subscriptions from 102 members and affiliates from 53 countries...
, the Caribbean Media CorporationCaribbean Media CorporationThe Caribbean Media Corporation is a Barbados-based centralised content-provider for the various Caribbean media houses in the region. Formed in June 2000, through the merger of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union and the Caribbean News Agency...
and the British Broadcasting Corporation. - He has worked as a freelance reporter for the Starbroek News of GuyanaGuyanaGuyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
, the Tobago News, the Trinidad Express, the Economic Times Magazine for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Trinidad and Tobago Airports Authority Yearbook, the Point Magazine, and the Caribbean Trakker magazine. - Nanton was a columnist focusing on youth affairs with the Tobago News between 2001 and 2003.
- He has covered news stories across the Caribbean, in Great Britain, in West Africa and in the United States. Stories covered included the historic visit of US President Barack ObamaBarack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well as 34 hemispheric leaders to the Fifth Summit of the Americas in April 2009, a State Banquet for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Phillip Duke of Edinburgh, the historic visit to Trinidad and Tobago by Nelson MandelaNelson MandelaNelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
in 2004, the state visit of Prince Charles of Wales and his wife Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall in 2008, the state visit of King Juan Carlos and Queen SophiaQueen Sofía of SpainQueen Sofía of Spain is the wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.-Early life and family:Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark was born in Psychiko, Athens, Greece on 2 November 1938, the eldest child of the King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederika , a former princess of Hanover...
of Spain in 2009, the fall of US billionaire Sir Allen Stanford in Antigua in February 2009 and interviews and conferences involving former and current United Nations Secretaries General Kofi AnnanKofi AnnanKofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...
and Ban Ki Moon, Winnie Mandela, former US Secretaries of State Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine AlbrightMadeleine Korbelová Albright is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0...
and Colin PowellColin PowellColin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African American to serve in that position. During his military...
, British Prime Minister Gordon BrownGordon BrownJames Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007...
, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen HarperStephen HarperStephen Joseph Harper is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became prime minister when his party formed a minority government after the 2006 federal election...
, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, India's Prime Minister Manmohan SinghManmohan SinghManmohan Singh is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India. He is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term. A Sikh, he is the first non-Hindu to occupy the office. Singh is also the 7th Prime Minister belonging to the Indian...
, South Africa's President Jacob ZumaJacob ZumaJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is the President of South Africa, elected by parliament following his party's victory in the 2009 general election....
, Australian President Kevin RuddKevin RuddKevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Bolivian President Evo MoralesEvo MoralesJuan Evo Morales Ayma , popularly known as Evo , is a Bolivian politician and activist, currently serving as the 80th President of Bolivia, a position that he has held since 2006. He is also the leader of both the Movement for Socialism party and the cocalero trade union...
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. - In November 2009, he anchored the arrival of Queen's Elizabeth II to Trinidad and Tobago and the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Port-of-Spain.
- In January 2010, Nanton traveled to Haiti for five days to report on a 7.0 earthquake that devastated Port-au-PrincePort-au-PrincePort-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
and claimed 230,000 lives. He returned to Haiti in February 2010 for six days, for follow-up coverage on the one-month mensiversary of the earthquake. Nanton also reported on the devastation of Grenada following Hurricane IvanHurricane IvanHurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, Cape Verde-type hurricane that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The cyclone was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season...
in 2004, on the aftermath of 9/11 in New York City in December 2001 and on the Gambian culture and traditions in 2000, including interviews with descendants of famed African slave, Kunta KinteKunta KinteKunta Kinte is the central character of the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley, and of the television miniseries Roots, based on the book. Haley described his book as faction - a mixture of fact and fiction...
. He also covered the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in 2001 and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2009. - He has covered ten general, local and assembly elections in Trinidad and Tobago and the swearing-in ceremonies for Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chief Secretaries.
- Nanton was a Trinidad and Tobago Youth Ambassador to The GambiaThe GambiaThe Republic of The Gambia, commonly referred to as The Gambia, or Gambia , is a country in West Africa. Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the west....
in 2000 and was granted Honorary Citizenship to, and the Certificate of Futampaf (BoukoutBoukoutBoukout is a Jola rite of passage practiced in Ziguinchor, Senegal.-Origin:There is evidence that this ritual has existed at least since the 12th century...
) of the West African country, following the Jola rite of passage. He also served as a Trinidad and Tobago Youth Ambassador to St Kitts and Nevis in 2002 and was the feature speaker at the UNESCOUNESCOThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
Caribbean Youth Gathering for Peace. - Nanton hosted the second and third annual Tobago House of Assembly Youth Excellence Awards in 2004 and 2005 respectively and has served as Public Relations Officer of both the Tobago Youth Council and the National Youth Council of Trinidad and Tobago.
- On May 25, 1999 Nanton and a news photographer were arrested while covering a protest for the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, one day before the Miss Universe Pageant being held in Trinidad and Tobago. He was charged with police obstruction and resisting arrest but won the matters in court. The arrest and subsequent court matters were documented by international media watchdog, Committee to Protect JournalistsCommittee to Protect JournalistsThe Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent nonprofit organisation based in New York City that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists.-History:A group of U.S...
, in its 2000 compilation of attacks on the media.
Awards
- Hilton General Manager's Award for Excellence in Journalism - 2010 - Best Television News Story/Feature, Social & Community Development, "Haiti in Ruins"
- Camsel/MATT Lumen Award - Best Television Feature, "Haiti in Ruins" - 2009/2010
- Camsel/MATT Lumen Award - Best Supporting Video, "Haiti in Ruins" - 2009/2010
- Hilton General Manager's Award for Excellence in Journalism - 2009 - Best Television News Story/Feature, Environment, "Turtles of Grande Reviere"
- Journalist of the Year, CNC3 - 2009
- Journalist of the Year, CNC3 - 2005
Other
- He has served three terms on the executive board of the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago.
- In 2000 he was the chairman of the Media Committee for the National Youth Development Awards hosted by the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs.
- He was the Founding President of the Roytec Students Guild (1999), a Founding Member of the current Trinidad Youth Council (2000) and a former Public Relations Officer of the Tobago Youth Council (2001-2003).
External links
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wDfhOUps9A
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL53tzeppbU
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdGgaTX3t7w
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQ9cHEfnfM
- http://www.youtube.com/user/CNC3Television#p/u/898/yl1GeeW4_tU
- http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=199321665534
- http://www.facebook.com/CNC3Television?v=app_2392950137#/video/video.php?v=199321665534
- http://www.cpj.org/attacks99/americas99/Trinidad.html
- http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Biography/JoannaGeorge.htm
- http://guardian.co.tt/news/general/2010/06/13/guardian-group-sweeps-annual-camsel-awards
- http://www.rcpos.org/communications/lumen-media-awards/519-2009-2010-qtowards-a-culture-of-respect-dialogue-a-friendshipq.html
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