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FMA Digital Rights Camp 2019

FOUNDATION FOR Media Alternatives (FMA) is accepting applicants for a series of capacity-building and awareness-raising activities, including the Digital Rights Camp, to advance human rights in the Philippine digital environment. The camp will be held May 29-31 at a venue to be announced later. Established in 1987, the FMA...

Pinoy Lensman Bags World Press Photo Award

FILIPINO PHOTOJOURNALIST Ezra Acayan won second prize in the World Press Photo Award for his photograph of a crime scene after an alleged drug personality was shot dead by unidentified gunmen during a wake in Quezon City in August 2018. Acayan’s photograph shows a member of the police’s Scene...

Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories

THE INTERNATIONAL Women’s Media Foundation’s (IWMF) Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories is accepting applications until April 21. Sponsored by the Secular Society, the IWMF’s Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories is a funding initiative supporting journalism produced by and about women. “In an era of increased globalization, the need for...

Joseph Ubalde, 33

JOURNALIST MARK Joseph Ubalde passed away Monday, April 1. He was 33 years old. The cause of Ubalde’s death is still not known. Reports said his lifeless body was found in a room in a Bonifacio Global City hotel in Taguig. Ubalde was a columnist for The Manila Times....

CMFR Executive Director to receive Hildegarde Award for Print Journalism

CMFR EXECUTIVE Director Melinda Quintos De Jesus will receive this year’s Hildegarde Award for Print Journalism. Melinda Quintos De Jesus was among the women journalists who wrote critically of the Marcos regime during the days of Martial Law at the Bulletin Today. She organized the Center for Media Freedom...

Inquirer Names New Associate Publisher

PHILIPPINE DAILY Inquirer president and CEO Alexandra Prieto-Romualdez has appointed former Central Desk chief Juliet Labog-Javellana as the company’s new associate publisher. Javellana will be management’s senior representative in the editorial group and will have post-oversight responsibility for the content, quality, style and image of the newspaper, the management...

Obit

ENRIQUE ROMUALDEZ, 92 MALAYA BUSINESS Insight executive director Enrique “Pocholo” Romualdez passed away February 28 at the Medical Center Manila. He was 92. Romualdez was editor of several papers including the Daily Express, Taipan Magazine, and the Manila Times. His first job was with the Philippines Commonwealth, then the...

Inquirer Appoints New Executive Editor, COO

PHILIPPINE DAILY Inquirer (PDI) Sunday Editor Joseph Voltaire “Volt” Contreras and Rudyard Arbolado have been appointed as the newspaper’s new executive editor and chief operating officer (COO), respectively. According to an Inquirer report, Contreras replaced Jose Ma. Nolasco, who retired on February 25, while Arbolado replaced Renato Reinoso, who...

Obit

Perfecto Villanueva Raymundo, 85 FORMER BULACAN Press Club (BPC) president and columnist Perfecto Villanueva Raymundo died on January 2. He was 85 One of the BPC’s founders, Raymundo served as the organization’s president for two terms from 1987-1991. He also wrote a weekly column in the local newspaper Mabuhay....

Fearless Cartoonist Jess Abrera Leaves Inquirer

AWARD-WINNING cartoonist and Philippine Daily Inquirer pioneer Jess Abrera Jr. left the Philippine Daily Inquirer on January 1, 2019 after 30 years in the newspaper. The cartoonist is known for his sharp comments on social and political issues. Prior to his resignation, his comic strip “A.Lipin” featured a series on the...

FMA Digital Rights Camp 2019

Pinoy Lensman Bags World Press Photo Award

Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories

Joseph Ubalde, 33

CMFR Executive Director to receive Hildegarde Award for Print Journalism

Inquirer Names New Associate Publisher

Obit

Inquirer Appoints New Executive Editor, COO

Obit

Fearless Cartoonist Jess Abrera Leaves Inquirer

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