16 awarded fellowships in 15th UP CMC community journalism workshop

(from the Official UP Diliman website)

The University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) has chosen 15 print, broadcast and online journalists and a graduating journalism student as fellows in the 15th Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Workshop.

The workshop is being held in partnership with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA).

This year’s workshop focuses on justice and human rights. It will be held at the CMC Plaridel Hall in UP Diliman from October 19 to 25. 

The fellows from the Philippines are journalists Winnie Aguilar (Krusada, ABS-CBN), Jesus Miguel Agreda (Sun.Star Baguio), Ferdinand Cabrera (ABS-CBN Cotabato), Leonard Corrales (News correspondent, Cagayan de Oro), Joseph Deveza (Philippine Daily Inquirer Cagayan De Oro), Bobby Labalan (Media Solutions Bicol), Macky Macaspac (Pinoy Weekly), Ronalyn Olea (Bulatlat), Kimberly Quitasol (Northern Dispatch Baguio), Ryan Rosauro (Philippine Daily Inquirer Mindanao), Lady Ann Salem (Tudla Productions), Richie Salgado (The Freeman Cebu), Raymund Villanueva (Kodao Productions) and Michelle Zoleta (Filipino Times Lucena). Kim Patria, a student from the UP CMC Department of Journalism, has also been chosen as a fellow.

For the first time in the history of the Lopez Jaena journalism workshops, it will have a fellow from outside the Philippines. He is Rasha M. Ahmed, a journalist from Egypt.

The 16 fellows were chosen on the basis of their professional background, sample works and story idea for an article they should write during the workshop.

The 15th Lopez Jaena Journalism Workshop is the UP CMC’s contribution to the global campaign against media killings which will be highlighted by the International Day to End Impunity on November 23. This marks the second year of the 2009 Ampatuan massacre which claimed the lives of 58 people, including 32 journalists and media workers. 
 
For more details, please contact Prof. Luis V. Teodoro, workshop director, at lvteodoro@up.edu.ph.

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