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Milton Walker
President, PAJ
Milton has been a Journalist for the past 30-years. A graduate of University of the West Indies, he first worked with the now defunct state-owned Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation as a Producer before moving into the News division. At JBC, he started the weekly financial programme, the Financial Week, on Fridays, which is now in its thirtieth year. He has worked in television at CVM Television with responsibility of its local news and current affairs programmes. Under his leadership, CVM News was a pioneer in news coverage with groundbreaking coverage of crime, the activities of the police, inner city, rural issues, politics, finance and the environment. Milton has received awards from the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union. He has covered stories in most Caribbean territories, Caricom Summits, the Caribbean Development Bank AGM and the Volcanic eruption in Montserrat. Milton has also covered the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, Uganda. He was the first Caribbean journalist to arrive in Haiti after the 7.0 earthquake devastated that country’s capital in January 2010. In March 2008 he began at the then RJR Group as News Director. On October 1, 2022, Milton was named Deputy General Manager for Broadcast and Cable News, Sports and Current Affairs for the RJRGLEANER Group. He is also a Press Freedom advocate and the current President of the Press Association of Jamaica. He is a One World Broadcasting Trust, and CNN Fellow.
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