PPI to re-examine media role
ON its 49th year and 17th annual conference, the Philippine Press Institute, the national association of newspapers, will re-examine the journalism practice in the country and assess how newspapers are surviving in the digital age in this year’s National Press Forum (NPF) “Watching the Watchdog: Re-examining Ourselves” on June 13 and 14 at the New World Hotel in Makati.
The annual event highly anticipated by PPI members from Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao will gather publishers and editors who will also discuss other issues and concerns related to sustainability as well as threats that make it even more difficult for community newspapers and journalists to survive.
The Sunday PUNCH is a member of PPI.
“We need to be critical of ourselves too,” says Malaya publisher and PPI chairman Amado ‘Jake’ Macasaet during the final meeting of the PPI Board in the first quarter of the year.
“There are those who corrupt and those who are being corrupted,” he added, stressing that the theme goes beyond ethics and more importantly touches on the survival of newspapers amidst the proliferation of online media and other competitors.
Media critic and PPI vice-chairman Vergel Santos, who will do the introduction to set the tone of the conference, said proficiency should also be the focus.
“Not only because the quality of professional practice in every aspect is poor, but also because technology has opened the practice to people altogether untrained for it, not to mention clueless about it,” Santos said.
The PPI Board’s choice of speakers include Dean Rolando Tolentino from the University of the Philippines’ College of Mass Communication (UPCMC), Ramon Tuazon from the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC), foreign correspondent and popular journalist-blogger Raissa Robles, press freedom fighter Rowena Paraan from the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Malou Mangahas from the Philippine Center on Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), and Marites Vitug from Rappler.
Highlight of the Press Forum is the 2012 Civic Journalism Community Press Awards that will recognize outstanding community newspapers.
The 17th National Press Forum is being supported by The Coca-Cola Export Corporation, Nickel Asia Corporation, New World Hotel, PhilHealth, First Philippine Holdings Corporation, Petron Corporation, SM Retail, Inc., SM Investments Corporation, and Land Bank of the Philippines.
The National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) will provide the cash prizes for the winners of culture and arts reporting, and climate change and biodiversity reporting.
Official media partner is PCIJ.
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