{"id":12860,"date":"2011-10-11T10:14:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12860"},"modified":"2011-10-11T10:19:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:19:31","slug":"marquis-pays-homage-to-dupuch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/marquis-pays-homage-to-dupuch","title":{"rendered":"Marquis Pays Homage To Dupuch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12862\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12862\" title=\"john-marquis-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/john-marquis-2.jpg\" alt=\"John Marquis\" width=\"158\" height=\"158\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Marquis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hold The Front Page (HTFP) is a U.K.-based website for and about journalists and journalism students  everywhere.\u00a0 They have a particular focus on the UK regional press.\u00a0 Each week,\u00a0 HTFP asks a leading regional press figure five set  questions about their career \u2013 including how it started, their best  story or headline, and which other journalists and publications they  most admire.<\/p>\n<p>This week, their focus in on none other than John Marquis, the former editor of The Tribune, here in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a question and answer that is particularly poignant to Bahamians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who would you rate as the best journalist you have worked either with or for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A website that offers the most comprehensive coverage of regional U.K. journalism news anywhere on the web has an interesting piece on a man who still makes certain Bahamians quiver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[46,69,260],"class_list":["post-12860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-celebrities","tag-internet","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}