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Sam Merrill, 55 LONGTIME US TV ANCHOR AND JOURNALIST Sam Merrill died Thursday, February 25. He was 55. Merrill died suddenly after collapsing last week. He served as an anchor and reporter for WNEM TV-5 for 25 years. While serving as a reporter, Merrill also emceed hundreds of community...

2016 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism

The Kurt Schork Memorial Fund is now accepting entries to its 2015 international awards for journalism, which aims to recognize the work of local reporters and freelance journalists in developing countries or nations in transition. Named after American freelance journalist Kurt Schork, who was killed in 2000 while on...

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Noel Vero Perfecto, 67 VETERAN JOURNALIST Noel Vero Perfecto succumbed to heart attack Saturday, February 20. He was 67. Perfecto was a reporter for the state-owned People’s Television Network (PTV-4) for three decades. He also worked for the Philippine Broadcasting Services-Radyong Bayan where he held a radio program entitled...

IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards

FULL-TIME OR freelance women journalists can now be nominated for the Courage in Journalism Awards sponsored by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF). The awards aim to recognize women journalists who have reported under duress and exhibited “extraordinary strength of character, bravery and perseverance in reporting the news.” Those working...

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Heikal, 92 VETERAN EGYPTIAN journalist Mohammed Hassanein Heikal died Wednesday, February 17. He was 92. Heikal was the editor of Cairo’s Al-Ahram daily from 1957 to 1974. He was a close confidant of the nationalist Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the early times of his career. He also...

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NUJP elects new set of officers The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) elected a new set of officers during its 9th National Congress held from January 29 to 31 in Baras, Rizal. Ryan Rosauro, a Mindanao correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), is the...

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PNoy approves privatization of IBC-13 PRESIDENT BENIGNO AQUINO III has given the go signal for the privatization of government-sequestered Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC-13), on the recommendation of the Governance Commission for GOCCs (government owned and controlled operations). In its press release, the GCG said that IBC-13’s privatization is necessary...

Training Program on Elections Reporting

THE THOMSON Reuters Foundation is offering a course on ethical and professional elections reporting. The program aims to provide training for journalists who are covering elections through seminars and workshops discussing the role of media in promoting democratic elections and voter information, ethics and writing techniques, story sourcing and legal...

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Comelec, KBP, media orgs launch Halalan (Election) 2016 debates; 2016 Asia Journalism Fellowship

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