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Melinda Quintos de Jesus worked as a freelance journalist in the 1970s, starting out in the field of television documentary film. Her experience in journalism has since included print, radio, and television. She helped conceptualize and edited TV Times, a weekly television magazine and Balikbayan, a monthly general features magazine. She also wrote columns for leading newspapers in the Philippines such as the Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, and The Manila Times.
In the 1980s, she was among the columnists of Bulletin Today who wrote critically of the Marcos regime. When she was eased out of that job, she moved to the forefront of the "alternative press" as editor and columnist of the newsweekly Veritas.
She organized CMFR in 1989 to address the problems confronting the press in a developing democracy. Now the publisher of CMFR's publications the Philippine Journalism Review and PJR Reports, she has also developed training programs on media and the justice system, peace reporting, media and gender-based reporting, and other emerging issues in the news agenda.
Ms. De Jesus is a member of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) Council and the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy. A founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), she has been a speaker, panelist, and resource person at local and international conferences and meetings.
She was a journalist-in-residence at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government based in Harvard University.
Ms. De Jesus received the Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Fellowship for Professional Development in 2000 in recognition of her efforts to strengthen Philippine democracy by promoting higher standards of media responsibility and professionalism.
Luis V. Teodoro is a journalism professor at the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Mass Communication, where he was dean for two terms (1994-2000).
He is a member of the Commission on Higher Education's (CHED) Technical Panel on Communication and the Social Sciences and chair of the CHED's Technical Committee on Journalism Education.
Now serving as CMFR deputy director, Mr. Teodoro is the consulting editor of CMFR's monthly media-monitoring magazine PJR Reports. He is also the editor of the Philippine Journalism Review, which serves as a refereed journal for academics and senior journalists. He also sits as member of the CMFR board.
He wrote columns for several broadsheets including BusinessMirror, Manila Standard Today, Today, and The Manila Times. He was also a columnist for the National Midweek magazine and the news website abs-cbnNews.com. His political commentaries made him one of the three short-listed nominees for the Philippines to the Titus Brandsma Awards for Best Opinion Writer in 2000. He now writes a column for BusinessWorld, a major business daily.
A noted author and media critic, Mr. Teodoro has written and edited books on mass media, among them: Mass Media Laws and Regulations in the Philippines (1998), which he co-wrote with Rosalinda Kabatay and Community Communication: An Introduction (1997); and CMFR publications such as Media in Court (1997), Limited Protection: Press Freedom and Philippine Law (2006), The CMFR Ethics Manual: A Values Approach to News Media Ethics (2007), and Philippine Press Freedom Primer (2007).
Mr. Teodoro has been a resource speaker on media ethics, problems of the Philippine press, journalism education, and other media issues for various seminars and conferences in the Philippines and abroad. After graduating from UP with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English (Journalism and Creative Writing), he attended the Master of Arts Program in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies in the same university.
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