Two Mindanawon Journalists are Among New Fellows for MA Journ

MindaNews
Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:37

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 July) – Two female Mindanawon journalists, both based in Davao City, are among 13 journalists in Asia who have been awarded fellowships for Master of Arts in Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University’s Konrad Adenauer Foundation Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ).

Germelina Lacorte, associate editor of davaotoday.com and Debbie Uy, editor in chief of Mindanao Insider, are among seven Filipinos awarded fellowships starting school year 2008-2009. Lacorte is also a correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer while Uy is also editor in chief of Go South magazine.

The fellows were presented formally at the alumni homecoming dinner Saturday at the Paparazzi restaurant at EDSA Shangrila at the Ortigas Center in Mandaluyong City.
The MA Journalism fellowships cover full tuition and miscellaneous fees, as well as expenses during two periods of on-campus stay such as travel, accommodation, and living expenses.
Uy was among eight who received the “Fellowships for Emerging Leaders in Asian Newsroom,” chosen “for their career records as well as their potential to contribute to the development of an independent, responsible and viable press in their communities.”

Lacorte, on the other hand was among four who received “Senior Fellowships,” chosen for their “outstanding careers and their contribution to the growth of the press in their communities.”
As of March 2008, some 60 working journalists from Cambodia, China , India , Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines and Sri Lanka have earned the degree first offered in 2003. ACFJ also offers diploma programs in photojournalism and radio journalism.

Lacorte and Uy are the second and third Mindanawons awarded a fellowship in the MA Journalism program. The first was MindaNews’ Carolyn O. Arguillas who was awarded a Senior Fellowship. Arguillas graduated in March 2007 and joined the faculty in the second semester of 2007-2008, teaching “Reporting about Conflict and Peace.”

In the Diploma in Photojournalism program, eight Mindanawons, all male, have been awarded the fellowship, four of whom have completed the course: MindaNews’ Froilan Gallardo of Cagayan de Oro City, now editor in chief of SunStar Cagayan de Oro and Charlie Saceda, Zamboanga City-based photojournalist of Philippine Star.

Gallardo and Saceda were part of the first batch and graduated summer last year. In the second batch, former MindaNews reporter Keith Kristoffer Bacongco of Pigcawayan, North Cotabato, now campaign officer of the Legal Resources Center (LRC) in Davao and Jose Aurelio “Toto” Lozano of Koronadal City, completed the requirements of the course summer this year and will graduate on August 1 this year.


Four other Mindanawon photojournalists are still completing the course: Rene B. Lumawag, who recently retired from SunStar Davao, and Rommel Rebollido of General Santos, a bureau chief of Philippine News Agency. MindaNews contributor Gandhi Kinjiyo of General Santos City and lawyer Glocelito Jayma of Butuan, formerly with LRC, now in private practice have just started the course. Kinjiyo is the lone Moro fellow.

Aside from Lacorte and Uy, the other MA Journalism fellows from the Philippines are Jennifer Alejandro, presently based in Singapore where she works as producer, reporter and business news anchor, senior manager, News and Current Affairs of Channel News Asia; Ruth Ann D. Cabal, news produce of GMA Network, Inc.; Iris Cecilia D. Gonzales, reporter of the Philippine Star; Hector Bryant L. Macale of Bulacan, senior staff writer of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility; and Alexander F. Villafania, reporter of Inquirer Interactive, Inc.

From Indonesia, the fellows are Yuri A. Aladdin of West Java, senior editor of the Antara News Agency where he also serves as Instructor in the Antara School of Journalism, and coordinator of reporters; .Fransiscus Xaverius Lilik D. Mardjianto of Jakarta, also of Antara News Agency; and Kurniawan Sisnoko of the Jakarta Post.

The other fellows are Senthong Phavasath of Vientiane, reporter and sub-editor of KPL News, Laos News Agency; Sam Noeun, executive producer of Radio FM 102 in Cambodia; and Pratibha Tuladhar, news anchor and sub-editor of Kantipur Television of Nepal. (MindaNews)
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