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Pinoy wins Asian human rights award
A Filipino journalist won the Asian Human Rights Press Awards on March 26, besting 400 other entries in the region.
Jason Gutierrez of the Agence France Presse won for a feature story on the military’s alleged murder of Isaias Sta. Rosa, a peasant leader and a Protestant pastor in Daraga, Albay.
Gutierrez chanced upon the story while covering the Mayon volcano eruption in Bicol in 2006. Although the story on the murder was printed in  the inside pages of local papers, it caught the attention of international human rights organizations.
International human rights watchdog Amnesty International and Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondents Club organized the awards.

Inquirer fotog wins in Asia Media Awards
The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Rem Zamora won two photojournalism awards in the 6th Asia Media Awards on March 29. His awards made him the only winner from a Philippine publication which competed with others in the Asia-Pacific region.
Zamora bagged the Newspaper Photographer of the Year award for his collection of photos of the landslide in Guinsaugon, Leyte in February 2006.
He also won the General News Photography award for his photograph of the dispersal by police of protesting militant and peasant groups at Chino Roces (Mendiola) Bridge on June 9, 2006.
The awards were organized by IFRA, an international association of newspaper and media publishing companies.

PCIJ wins 1st Philippine Blog Awards
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism’s blog Inside PCIJ won in the News and Media Blog category in the first Philippine Blog Awards on March 31.
Inside PCIJ bested blog @ AWBHoldings, byJove!, Cyberbaguioboy, and RG Cruz. There were 11 other categories aside from news and media, four special awards, and five Broadband Awards sponsored by Globe Telecom.
The awards were organized by Abe Olandres, Gail de la Cruz Villanueva and Jayvee Fernandez, three individuals involved in different areas of online media, to recognize quality content in the Philippine blogosphere.

Orosa, Ocampo bag Spanish journalism awards
Philippine Star columnist Rosalinda Orosa won first prize in the first Quijano de Manila Journalism Awards.
Orosa won for her piece, “A Treatise for Spanish,” published in Starweek magazine last Nov. 27.  Ambeth Ocampo, Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist and National Commission of Culture and Arts chair, took second prize for “Signs of Identity,” which was published on Nov. 30, 2005. Orosa and Ocampo were also awarded P75,000 and P25,000, respectively.
The awards, named in honor of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin who used the pen name Quijano de Manila, were held on March 5. It was started in 2005 by the Spanish Embassy and the Instituto Cervantes in Manila.

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