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JVOAEJ Awards winners to be known June 29
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), in cooperation with the Ateneo de Manila University, will an-nounce the winners of the 17th annual Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ) on June 29 (Thursday) at a program to be held at the AIM Conference Center Manila (Bena-videz corner Trasierra Streets, Legaspi Village, Makati City).
The awards ceremony will follow the Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar which starts at 9:30 a.m. As has been the practice since 1995, selected finalists will participate in a panel discussion about their articles and take questions from the audience, especially journalism faculty and students.
As administrator of the awards, CMFR introduced an innovation for this year’s selection. Reports published by daily newspapers are now judged separately from those published by non-dailies. Thus, there will be two sets of first, second, and third prizes for investigative journalism and explanatory reporting.
In the explanatory category, five finalists from the dailies and six from non-dailies are competing for the top prizes; in the investigative category, there are also five and six, respectively.
The first-prize winner in each category will receive P70,000; the second-prize winner, P40,000; and the third, P20,000. Finalists will each receive P10,000.
Winners and finalists will receive a plaque.
Two of the four first-prize winners will receive a travel grant each. This is the 10th year that the Canadian Embassy will be giving the Marshall McLuhan Prize, a travel study tour of Canada, for the winner in the investigative category. And for the fourth time, the Australian Embassy will be presenting the Australian Ambassador’s Award, an observation tour of Australia, to the winner in the explanatory category. CMFR will choose the winners of the two grants.
The awards were first given in 1990 to honor the late Jaime V. Ongpin, who was secretary of finance during the Aquino administration. A press freedom advocate, Ongpin was involved in the struggle against the Marcos dictatorship and was instrumental in harnessing public support for the restoration of democracy in the Philippines.
This year, the JVOAEJ also received financial assistance from The Asia Foundation with support from the United States Agency for International Development.
FINALISTS:
Explanatory Category
— Daily
“Philippine economic progress since 1988: The ‘good old days’”
John Mangun
BusinessMirror
December 1-3, 2005
“Graduating class: Education, labor mismatch”
Norman P. Aquino
BusinessWorld
March 10, 2005
“Electronic ears listen with bugs and taps”
Fil V. Elefante
The Manila Times
June 27-29, 2005
“The economics of corruption”
D’Laarni A. Ortiz, Larissa Josephine C. Villa, Roulee Jane F. Calayag, and Ehden Llave-Pelaez
Noel G. Reyes, Editor
BusinessWorld
July 19, 2005
“Confrontation to cooperation?:
Labor-management relations evolve in globalization era”
Dave Llorito
BusinessMirror
November 2, 2005
— Non-Daily
“Mutants on your plate”
Alan C. Robles
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Published in i Report
January-March 2005
“Broken promises”
Lala Rimando, Cathy Rose Garcia, and Elena Torrijos
Newsbreak
January 31, 2005
“Trained to care”
Avigail Olarte
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Published in i Report
January-March 2005
“Bataan nuke power plant: Still unused, still paying for it”
Lidy Nacpil and Mae Buenaventura
Philippine Graphic
March 14, 2005
“Mama can’t eat”
Vinia Datinguinoo
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Published in i Report
January-March 2005
“Focus on Filipino youth: Perils of generation sex”
Cheryl Chan
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Published in i Report
September 2005
Investigative Category
— Daily
“Bailout costs too much for deposit insurer”
Norman P. Aquino
BusinessWorld
November 29-December 1, 2005
“Tracing the trail of the tape”
Fe Zamora and Gerry Lirio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
September 17-18, 2005
“Palawan’s gas pains”
Jofelle Tesorio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
January 13, 2005
“CAP: From pre-need’s poster boy to whipping boy”
Daxim L. Lucas and
Elizabeth L. Sanchez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
September 19-21, 2005
“Border dispute leaves Dumagats in quandary”
Fritz Dacpano
The Manila Times
April 25-26, 2005
— Non-Daily
“So young and so trapo”
Avigail Olarte
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Published in i Report
September 20005
“Running on taxpayers’ money”
Luz Rimban
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Published in i Report
September 2005
“Guns and gold”
Gemma B. Bagayaua
Newsbreak
December 5, 19, 2005 and January 30, 2006
“Major players eluding government anti-logging drive in Aurora”
Luz Rimban
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Published in BusinessWorld, Cebu Daily News, Malaya, Philippine Daily Inquirer,
and Sun.Star Daily
January 31-February 1, 2005
“For land and wages: Half a century of peasant struggle at Hacienda Luisita”
Dabet Castañeda
Bulatlat.com
Published in Philippine Graphic January 3-10, 2005
and January 17, 2005
“Cheats Inc.”
Miriam Grace A. Go
Newsbreak
September 12, 2005
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