CMFR Trustee to receive Freedom of the Press Award

CMFR TRUSTEE Luis V. Teodoro will receive this year’s Titus Brandsma Freedom of the Press award.

Luis V. Teodoro is recognized for being “a journalist, editor, and journalism educator whose incisive critiques of Philippine media have inspired generations of media practitioners and scholars. Many of the latter are now established journalists, editors and media scholars who, in turn, imparted to their audience and students, the ethical principles and the professionalism of the craft of journalism that they have learned from Luis. His sharp analyses in his columns often step on the interests of the powerful and the mighty, and necessarily so as the overall thrust of his media advocacy is a democratized access to information for a learned society.”

He is among the six journalists to receive the 2019 Titus Brandsma Awards from the Brandsma Media Center, a Carmelite Media Ministry.  The other awardees are:

• Leadership in Journalism – Ed Lingao, TV5
• Emergent Leadership in Journalism – Christian Esguerra, ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC)
• Leadership in Communication and Culture & Arts – Belina San Buenaventura-Capul, Philippine Information Agency (PIA)
• Leadership in Environmental Communication & Advocacy – Gina Lopez
• Lifetime Achievement award – Fr James Reuter, SJ

The Titus Brandsma Awards are given to individuals and groups especially to journalists in print and broadcast media who share the virtues of Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Carmelite priest, journalist and educator who was martyred in 1942 in Nazi Germany’s Dachau Concentration Camp for writing and defending the truth.

The awardees will formally receive their Titus Brandsma awards in a ceremonial dinner on Monday, October 28, at the SM Skydome, North EDSA in Quezon City.