{"id":676,"date":"2018-01-04T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:19:26","slug":"moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Moving on"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember my first day working at the Trinidad Guardian<\/em>, having just joined the staff from the Express<\/em>. The main newsroom was a bull pen, there was one phone and I had been put to work on the slowest computers I’d ever worked with. I threw a tantrum in the office.<\/p>\n

That was in 1998.<\/p>\n

Nearly 20 years later I’ve moved on to a different paper. I was prostrate with grief that I had left an organisation that had been my touchstone for two decades. Even when I left the staff I stayed on as a freelancer. I’d joke that Guardian<\/em> had “stay home”<\/a> in the water. It’s been hard for me to move on.<\/p>\n

(It’s been even hard for my computer to move on. The machine on which I’d written so much and edited so much for the Guardian<\/em> over the past few years still autofills Trinidad Publishing Company, the former name of the Guardian’s<\/em> parent company, when I type in Trinidad.)<\/p>\n

But I’ve moved on. I’ve had three bylines at the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday<\/em><\/a> so far. Read the stories here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s to 20 more years.<\/p>\n

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