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Unicef, PPI seminar: Reporting on children
The United Nations Children’s Fund and the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) will conduct a seminar-workshop on child-sensitive jour-nalism on May 25-26 in Baguio City.

The workshop will cover the current situation of child reporting in the country, guidelines on reportage on children, spotting mistakes, and rewriting stories on children.

Resource persons include Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility Deputy Director Rachel Khan, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism’s Tess Bacala, Department of Justice’s Baboo Mondenado, and PPI’s Gary Mariano.

2 Filipino journalists get SEAPA fellowship
The Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), a regional press freedom alliance, gave 12 Southeast Asian journalists the annual SEAPA Journalism Fellow-ships. Two of the awardees were Filipinos.

Germelina Lacorte, associate editor of Davao Today and Allen Estabillo of BusinessWorld and MindaNews were among the journalists recognized as SEAPA fellows.

Lacorte and Estabillo will report on the effects of global tourism and dominant religions on indigenous cultures in Sarawak, Malaysia from May 10 to June 16.

2 Pinoys among DAJA winners
Two Filipino journalists were among the recipients of the 2006 Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) last April 19.

Ma. Theresa Bacalla won top prize for the Women and Development category. Chit Estella, editor of PJR Reports, was first runner-up in the Poverty Issues category. Both won for stories they wrote for the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.

Bacalla’s article, “One Year after Quezon Disaster, Women Are Leading Their Families Toward Recovery,” was published on Nov. 14 last year in major newspapers.

The article, “Substandard Nursing Schools Sell Dreams of a Life Abroad,” by Estella came out on March 21 last year.

DAJA is held annually by ADBI “to acknowledge Asian and Pacific print journalists who cover development trends and the impact these have on the countries and people of the region.”

Cebu Daily News sweeps Annual Community Press Awards
Cebu Daily News won four of five awards at the 10th Annual Community Press Awards given by the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) last April 24.

Cebu Daily News, which won in the category of daily newspapers, topped the awards for Business and Economic Reporting, Editing, Editorial Page, and Photojour-nalism categories while Bacolod City’s Kapawa News was adjudged Best in Science and Environmental Reporting.

In the weekly category, the winners were Baguio Midland Courier (Business and Economic), the South Cotabato-based Min-danao Bulletin (Editing), Panga-sinan’s Sunday Punch (Editorial Page), Bulacan’s Mabuhay, (Photo-journalism), and Bandillo ng Pala-wan (Science and Environment).

The Awards was organized by PPI in cooperation with the Philippine Association of Communication Educators Foundation (PACE). The Annual Community Press Awards is open to all regional newspapers affiliated with PPI.

Also that night, Junior Inquirer topped the Outstanding Children’s Newspaper category for the fifth year to become the first inductee in the Unicef Child-Friendly News-paper and Journalist Awards’ Hall of Fame. The Philippine Daily Inqui-rer also topped the other categories in the national broadsheet division such as Child-Friendly Newspaper of the Year, Outstanding Column on Children, and Outstanding Story on Children.

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