Congratulations to the winners in this year’s Philippine Journalism Research Conference (PJRC) held at the University of the Philippines Wednesday.
The project is commendable because, these days when many people are dismayed by the preponderance of sloppy journalis, it gives importance to research in the practice of journalism.
Aiming to highlight commendable researches of journalism students,this year’s PJRC gave the Chit Estella Memorial Awards for Journalism Research to students with the most excellent work.
UP students cornered the top three awards. UP College of Mass Communication students Iza Darlene Cay and Vince
Alvic Alexis Nonato bagged the top prize for their research on the apparent conflict of interest within the policy-making decisions of Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party after it supported Benigno Aquino III as presidential candidate in 2010.
Akbayan, the students said, joined the Liberal Party to forward its causes even if the platforms of the two parties differed on various aspects such as labor.
It found that the alliance with the Liberal Party caused the party to “compromise their ideals to give in to the policy framework of the other members of the alliance” in several instances.
The panel of judges lauded the pair for their groundbreaking work that included muckraking, unearthing and making sense of data.
Cay and Nonato were also awarded the People’s Choice Award.
The second place went to Luis Adrian Hidalgo and Antonio Jose Galaruan, also UP students, for their study on the effects of the proposed National Botanical Garden at the UP Arboretum to the lives of about 2,500 residents. The UP Arboretum is the remaining rainforest in Metro Manila.
UP students Jeanne Camille Hernandez and Mark Conrad Salvador bagged the third prize for their comparative content analysis of ABS-CBN’s CCTV Patrol and GMA-7′s Hulicam News Segments.
Elora Joselle Cangco, Encar Marie Ilao, and Bernadette Nicolas of the University of Santo Tomas were awarded a citation from the Disaster Risk Reduction Network for their study, “The Effects of Source Diversity in Perceived Credibility and Media Use of the Audience: The Typhoon Stories of Two Broadcast News Programs.”
An event that started last year by the UP’s Department of Journalism,this is the first time the university allowed other schools to participate.
A total of 50 proposals were sent in from several universities in the country. From this set, the UP Journalism Department chose 12 finalists.
The papers were presented to the panel and board of judges UP CMC Professor Danilo Arao, Central Luzon State University and Chair of the Commission on Higher Education technical panel on Journalism Professor
Ben Domingo, former CMC Dean and faculty member Georgina Encanto,Philippine Daily Inquirer Senior Desk Editor Juan V Sarmiento Jr. and VERA Files trustee Luz Rimban.
The award was named after the late Chit Estella Simbulan, a professor at the UP Journalism Department and VERA Files trustee. She died in a vehicle accident on May 13, 2011.
Her family set up the journalism awards in cooperation with VERA Files and the UP Department of Journalism.
Other finalists include: The Sabah Armed Conflict:An analysis of Peace and War Journalism by Maricar Corina Canaya of Ateneo de Zamboanga University; “Message, massage, Mass-age: The role of Facebook and
Twitter in the Million People March by Jephtae Deogracias, John Michael C. Galman, Marielle Franzes DC Hamoy and Wenry Nicole A.Venuya of Bulacan State University; Montalban’s Open Casket: An Advocacy Journalism Investigating the Selected Residents of Relocation Site Kasiglahan Village in Montalban, Rizal by Beatrice
Alanna Redil Celdran of Kalayaan College in Quezon City;
A Comparative Content Analysis on Cable News Network’s iReport Vetted News Stories by Filipino and American Citizen Journalists” by Dionisio T. Pobar III and Karina Lois T. Tendero of Malayan Colleges Laguna;
Pinoy SciJourn:Journalism as an Agent of Development of the Science and Technology Sector in the Philippines by 18 students led by Firas Abboud of the Mapua Institute of Technology;
Filipino Value Orientations Reflected in Pol Medina’s Cartoons “Pugad Baboy” as Perceived by Students and Cartoonists by Karen M. Napiloy and Jemissa C. Gapusan of Saint Mary’s University; Partisanship in
Media:A comparative Content Analysis on the Framing of News on 2013 Senatorial Candidates Between TV Patrol and 24 Oras by Stephanie Jasmine D. Maya of St. Paul University in Quezon City; and How Journalists Think Before They Write: Assessing the Psychological and Professional Dimensions of News Decisions” by Karrisa Asis and Charmaine Nuque of the University of Santo Tomas.
Domingo said he hopes that in future PJRC awards, the winners would come from other schools aside from UP.
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