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Moro Times launched
A monthly supplement devoted to topics on development, peace, business opportunities, and other national issues affecting Mindanao was launched by The Manila Times on July 18.

Named Moro Times, the supplement comes out every last Friday of the month. The project was created with the support of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy, a non-partisan, non-government organization.

The Times, in its July 28 editorial, said the supplement hopes to correct Filipinos’ misconception about Mindanao.

Photojournalists forum held in Manila
The fifth Asia-Europe Forum for Young Photographers was held in Manila from August 21-27. Organized by the Asia-Europe Foundation, the World Press Photo Foundation and the Philippine Center for Photojournalism, the forum drew 21 photojournalists from Europe and Asia.

Participants were given a two-and-a-half day photo assignment in Metro Manila focusing on urban youth. About 170 images from the exercise were exhibited at the SM Mall of Asia last August 27.

Magdalena Herrera, National Geographic’s head of photo-graphy; Hans-Jürgen Burkard, photographer for Stern and Geo Magazine (Germany); and veteran Filipino photojournalists Alex Baluyut and Romeo Gacad (who is from Agence France Presse) were the forum’s facilitators.

The Philippines was chosen host country for this year’s forum in memory of Gene “Boyd” Lumawag who was killed in the line of duty in November 2004.

PCIJ’s Coronel to teach at Columbia U
After 16 years as the executive director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), veteran journalist Sheila Coronel has left the Philippines for a teaching post at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Coronel, the 2003 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, will also be the inaugural director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the same university.

“I leave PCIJ with sadness. After all, some of my best, most productive and most exciting years as a journalist were spent at the Center,” Coronel wrote in the PCIJ blog. “My departure comes at a time when the PCIJ is making what I believe is a monumental shift to new media,” adding that she is confident that PCIJ will continue “producing the trailblazing journalism for which it is known, but this time on multimedia platforms.”

According to Coronel, despite her post abroad, she continues to remain on board as a PCIJ trustee.  The PCIJ board, she wrote, is still looking for a new executive director and a deputy.

“I am confident that the PCIJ will continue to provide a home for journalists who want to wander off the beaten track and to embark on challenging reporting projects that the mainstream media will not support,” Coronel wrote. PCIJ’s efforts in building a “grand reportorial tradition for the Philippine media” have earned the institution “a secure place in Philippine journalism.”

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