Hold The Front Page (HTFP) is a U.K.-based website for and about journalists and journalism students everywhere. They have a particular focus on the UK regional press. Each week, HTFP asks a leading regional press figure five set questions about their career – including how it started, their best story or headline, and which other journalists and publications they most admire.
This week, their focus in on none other than John Marquis, the former editor of The Tribune, here in The Bahamas.
Here is a question and answer that is particularly poignant to Bahamians.
Who would you rate as the best journalist you have worked either with or for?
“Sir Etienne Dupuch, the fearless publisher of The Tribune for 53 years, was my mentor in the 1960s when I was a very young political reporter in the Bahamas. I rated him very highly. I also had great regard for his daughter, Eileen Dupuch Carron, who continues to work as publisher of The Tribune today at the age of 81, having succeeded her father in 1972.”
John Marquis was managing editor of The Tribune, Bahamas, 1999-2009 and previously editor/publisher of the Falmouth Packet and associated titles from 1985-1999. He was also London sports editor and chief boxing correspondent of Thomson Regional Newspapers from 1975-81.
