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PHILIPPINE Graphic editor Inday Espina Varona and
writers Yvette Lee and Christine Mangulabnan won this
year’s Jaime Ongpin Awards for excellence in journalism,
investigative category for nondailies, for their
two-part series on sunken ships in Leyte being
cannibalized for scrap- iron exports.
Given
each year by the Center for Media Freedom and
Responsibility (CFMR) in honor of the late anti-Marcos
activist and business leader Jaime Ongpin, the award
encourages in-depth journalism in the Philippines.
Also
winning a prize for investigative category in the
nondaily category was Fe Zamora of the Philippine Daily
Inquirer for her investigation on the RSBS mess that led
to its bankruptcy.
In the
explanatory category, Mary Ann Reyes’ piece in the
Philippine Star on the travails of the detergent
industry won her the first prize in the daily newspaper
category. Newsbreak’s Carmela Fonbuena’s piece entitled
“Seeing Red” on the political killings also won her
first prize in the nondaily category.
BusinessMirror’s Dave Llorito was a finalist in the
explanatory journalism category for dailies, for his
piece on biofuels.
First
prize winners received P70,000 each.
Besides
the cash prize, Inday Varona also got the Marshall
McLuhan prize, giving her the opportunity to travel to
Canada. Mary Ann Reyes will also receive the Australian
Ambassador’s Choice Award, an observation tour of
Australia.
Other
winners of the Jaime Ongpin Awards are:
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Melvin
Gascon of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, second prize
(investigative), for his entitled “Citrus farmers
restive over mining project”;
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Aries
Rufo of Newsbreak, second prize, nondaily category
(investigative), for his story on making money from
making peace;
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Lala
Rimando of Newsbreak, third prize, nondaily category
(investigative), for her story on the Romualdez family
and Equitable Bank;
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Daxim
Lucas and Clarissa Batino of the Philippine Daily
Inquirer, third prize, for their story entitled “Doing
good in bad times”;
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Fernando
del Mundo and other PDI staff for their story on the
Guimaras oil spill;
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Vinia
Datiguinoo of the Philippine Center for Investigative
Journalism (PCIJ), second prize, explanatory category,
on her story “Preparing for disaster”; and
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Roel
Landingin, third prize, (explanatory category), for a
PCIJ story on fiscal incentives entitled “Incentives for
the rich harm the poor” that appeared in several
newspapers.
Second
prize winners got P40,000 cash while third prize winners
got P20,000. |
