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Reagan Des Vignes is a Trinidadian journalist, who's been a news anchor at TRT World in Istanbul since 2018. He's also executive producer and host of the network's climate series Just 2 Degrees - a position he started in October 2022. The programme reports on environmental issues, including protests against fossil fuel companies as well as the private sector and governments that support them. The show also looks at initiatives and technological advances to reduce pollution in the biosphere and hydrosphere, and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Reagan got his start in media in 2006 as a production assistant at Trinidadian community channel called Gayelle the Channel. Because of his personality, work ethic and out-of-the-box thinking, he quickly advanced to the position of executive producer and host of the popular travel and variety series, Dreevay. The show covered cultural events, food, people and health issues, like cancer and HIV. On the series, he initiated a televised HIV testing campaign that inspired hundreds of people on the island to 'know their status'. He even got tested on the show himself. On Gayelle, Reagan later created the sketch comedy series, and local hit, Seedrink.

In 2015, Reagan took his ambitions abroad, at first as a news anchor and international correspondent for Telesur English in Quito and Venezuela. In the position, his most memorable reporting may have been the devastation after Hurricane Maria on the island of Dominica in 2017. Reagan posted on Instagram and Facebook that he and his crew spent days with limited food and water, and only showered once when the rain fell, as the Caribbean island grappled with recovery. Reagan did several reports on the destruction in Dominica, and interviewed locals and Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.

In 2018, Reagan was offered the position of senior producer at TRT World, and began presenting the news and other programmes there 4 months later.