Covering corruption is Ongpin seminar topic

Reporting  corruption will be the subject of the 2012 Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has announced.

The 2012 Marshall McLuhan fellow will be named after the Seminar, which starts promptly at 9:30 a.m. on June 22, 2012 at the SGV Hall of the Asian Institute of Management Conference Center in Makati City.

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 Manila colleges and universities.

Invited panelists include:

• Carolyn O. Arguillas
  MindaNews

• Dana Batnag
  Jiji Press

• Glenda M. Gloria
  Rappler.com/Newsbreak

• Carla P. Gomez
  The Visayan Daily Star

• Lynda Jumilla
  ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp.

• Jiggy Manicad
  GMA Network Inc.

• Malou Mangahas
  Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

The Ambassador of Canada to the Philippines, Christopher Thornley, will announce the recipient of the 2012 Marshall McLuhan fellowship. 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. Fifteen Filipino journalists have been McLuhan Fellows since the Fellowship was established in 1997.

CMFR administered the Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism from 1989 until the competition was discontinued in 2010; but continued 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.

The 2012 McLuhan Fellow was chosen by a committee of senior journalists who considered candidates based on CMFR’s review of coverage for 2011 in the PJR Reports and other recommendations.

PJR Reports is the flagship publication of CMFR. It reviews media performance and recognizes good practice while criticizing lapses in compliance wit professional and ethical standards.