Lasana Liburd
Lasana D. I. Liburd is the Founder, CEO and Editor of Wired868.com, which is Trinidad and Tobago’s first online news source that specialises in sport, satire and opinion. He has more than 20 years experience at several Trinidad and Tobago and international media houses, such as the BBC World Service, The Guardian Newspapers of London, ESPN, Reuters, Play The Game and the Trinidad Express.Lasana was a contributor to British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings’ critically acclaimed book on FIFA, Foul, as well as American Huckster by Mary Papenfuss and Teri Thompson, which was the result of an investigation into American soccer official, Chuck Blazer. He was also one of several international investigative journalists who co-authored a book on sport corruption entitled ‘Korruption Im Sport’ which was published in Germany.
Lasana is renowned for his investigative work into former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner while his Trinidad Express series on Warner’s monopoly of World Cup tickets for the 2006 World Cup led to Warner’s conviction by FIFA on charges of conflict of interest and was hailed as the soccer story of the year by Fox Sports.
Sport matters will it hurt or heal? | Lasana Liburd | TEDxPortofSpain 2019 Talks
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