| TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
Trinidad and Tobago In Trinidad and Tobago, the researchers were able to derive the percentage of media coverage on trafficking in persons compared to all other stories because the media research site Media InSite scrapes and amalgamates stories from all media entities in Trinidad. Data scraped and amalgamated for this project covered a 2-year duration – from June 2021-June 2023 showed the total number of stories across all media entities was approximately 78,600. In those two years, the number of stories found under the search term “trafficking in persons” stands at 319. If this number is halved, to approximate stories for one year, it will stand at 159. This means that there is 0.2% of media coverage on trafficking in persons compared to other stories in Trinidad and Tobago.
Image 1: Total Stories for 2023. Source: Media InSite
Three hundred and nineteen (319) stories were published or broadcast over the specified period. These were sourced from eight media houses as listed below:
MEDIA HOUSE 095.5 FM I95
NUMBER OF STORIES
1
CCN-TV6
30 24 83 93
CNC3
Express Guardian Newsday
61 19
Newsday Tobago
TTT
8 Table 18 – Media coverage on Trafficking in Persons from Trinidad and Tobago for the period June 2021 to June 2023
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