Covering the Campaign and Elections is 2013 Ongpin Seminar Topic

REPORTING the 2013 midterm campaign and elections and other media issues will be the subject of the 2013 Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar.

The program, which will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. on June 27, 2013 at the SGV Hall of the AIM Conference Center Manila in Makati City, will also include the announcement of the 2013 Marshall McLuhan Fellow and the presentation of Maria Lourdes “Nini” Cabaero, the new media editor of the Sun.Star group of community newspapers, as the Sandra Burton Nieman Fellow.

Print, broadcast and online journalists will constitute the panel that will discuss the topic and answer questions from the audience of media practitioners, journalists, journalism students, and journalism and communication professors from colleges and universities in the national capital region and Luzon.

The confirmed panelists and their media organizations are:

• Deo Almazan-Bugaoisan
GMA Network Inc.

• Henry Omaga Diaz
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp.

• Pia Hontiveros-Pagkalinawan
SOLARtv

• Lynda Jumilla
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp.

• Malou Mangahas
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

• Raissa Robles
raissarobles.com : inside Philippine politics and beyond

• Ryan D. Rosauro
Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Embassy of Canada, with SunLife Financial Inc., sponsors the Marshall McLuhan fellowship named after the Canadian communication theoretician.

The fellowship consists of a ten-day familiarization and lecture tour of Canadian media and academic institutions, and later, a lecture tour of selected Philippine universities under the auspices of the Embassy of Canada in the Philippines. Sixteen Filipino journalists have been McLuhan Fellows since the Fellowship was established in 1997.

The McLuhan Fellow was chosen by a committee of senior journalists who considered candidates based on CMFR’s review of the 2012 press coverage of major public issues in CMFR’s PJR Reports Online, and other recommendations.

The Sandra Burton Nieman Fellow is supported by the Ninoy and Cory Aquino Foundation. The process calls for applications and the selection is supervised by the CMFR.

The Nieman fellowship consists of a year-long study grant at Harvard University in the United States. The late Sandra Burton was the Time Asia correspondent who covered the Philippines extensively from August 23, 1983 when the late Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated at the Manila International Airport until the restoration of democracy in 1986 and onwards.

CMFR administered the Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism from 1989 until the competition was discontinued in 2010, but has since continued to hold the Seminar, which had been a feature of the awards program since 1995.

The late Jaime V. Ongpin, who was finance secretary in the President Corazon Aquino Cabinet, was a press freedom advocate involved in the anti-martial law resistance.