Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid

Wins at the human rights front

A triumph of various human rights group, and it happened a few days before Christmas. 

Challenges in community media digitalization in a democracy

There appears to be a growing interest in community media here and in the developing world. Here, it is triggered by challenges of food security and governance trends in the implementation of the Mandanas ruling on the provision of IRA to local government this coming year. The future of rice and fish and other commodities depend upon the capacity of our local communities to meet the demand of the entire population for these basic supplies. 
Among communicators, the focus is on how to revitalize community broadcast and print media to meet the information needs of the regions. This, by combining the capacities of local broadcasting and the community newspaper with digitalization so that they can effectively be utilized in community development, and by creative utilization of indigenous media found in poetry, music, dance, storytelling etc. The challenge is to upgrade the quality of both the content and its delivery through use of digital images. 

A new model curriculum for journalism education

Ten years ago, an ASEAN regional workshop on journalism curriculum was held in the country. Organized by the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) and the UNESCO National Commission, the workshop was held in partnership with the Philippine Association of Communication Educators (PACE), the Embassy of Canada, Commission on Higher Education Technical Committee, UP College of Mass Communication, St. Theresa’s College of Cebu, and Philippine Star. 

Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma’s several ‘firsts’

At the launch of the video on the life of the late Supreme Court Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma last Nov. 22, SC Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide described her as “an exemplary woman, without whom the history of our country and our people would be incomplete.”

‘Not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire’

This is the educational philosophy of a Filipino religious missionary who worked for 30 years in the Smokey Mountains.