The video embedded here includes highlights from the U.S. Embassy of Barbados & the Eastern Caribbean’s multi-media panel discussion on the topic “Digital Media: The Changing Face of Journalism in the Caribbean,” on Tuesday 15 May, 2012.

The panel includes veteran journalist and editor of Barbados Today’s online newspaper , a Vincentian journalist living and studying in Taiwan who maintains the news blog I-Witness News and former journalist and news anchor with the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation who is Editor of the daily news and arts website , they contributed to the event both physically at the Embassy in Wildey, Barbados – as well as using the internet to reach Kenton via Skype.

The discussion was streamed from the Embassy in a format which allowed Facebook users to volunteer questions. Topics examined included:

• How has digital media changed the way that news, culture and information are reported?
• What standard of ethics applies to digital media?
• What impact does digital media have on traditional forms of media, like television and radio?