PCIJ’s Malou Mangahas is the 2013 Marshall McLuhan Fellow

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Malou Mangahas is the 2013 recipient of the Marshall McLuhan fellowship, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility announced today, June 27, after the traditional Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar.

Mangahas was chosen by a committee of senior journalists from this year’s panel of journalists who discussed the topic “Reporting the 2013 Campaign and Elections”. Mangahas’ selection as the 2013 McLuhan Fellow was announced immediately after the seminar by the Embassy of Canada in the Philippines.

The Embassy of Canada, with support from with SunLife Financial Inc., sponsors the McLuhan fellowship named after communication theoretician Marshall McLuhan. It consists of a ten-day familiarization and lecture tour of Canadian media and academic organizations, and later, a lecture tour of Philippine universities under Embassy auspices.

The Ninoy and Cory Aquino Foundation also presented Maria Lourdes “Nini” Cabaero , new media editor of the Sun.Star group of community newspapers, as the Sandra Burton Nieman Fellow.

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.

The panelists of this year’s Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar were:

• Deo Dominic A. Bugaoisan
  GMA Network Inc.
• Henry Omaga Diaz
  ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp.
• Pia Hontiveros-Pagkalinawan
  SOLARtv
• Lynda Jumilla-Abalos
  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

Each received a certificate of recognition and a P20,000 honorarium.

The panelists, known as Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Fellows, were chosen by the committee from a list based on the CMFR’s PJR Reports Online, and other recommendations. Since 2010, there have been 24 fellows.

The Seminar was held at the SGV Hall of the Asian Institute for Management Conference Center Manila, Makati City.

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