Jefry Tupas of the Davao City-based Newsdesk was the Grand Winner of the EU 2015 Peace Journalism Awards in a ceremony held at the Hotel Intercontinental in Makati City on July 8, said a report by Mindanews on July 9.
Tupas won the grand prize for his article, “The Teachers of Raja Muda.” He received the award during the awarding ceremonies.
Three were named grand finalists or winners in their respective categories: Tupas for online; Stella Estremera, editor in chief of SunStar Davao, for written text in print media, for her piece, “Rituals for Peace,” and photojournalist Jes Aznar, a contributor of MindaNews, for photojournalism.
Aznar won for his black and white photo essay, “Bridge to Peace,” published in mindanews.com.
MindaNews’ Froilan Gallardo was awarded the “Philippine Star.com‘s Choice Award” for his story,”In pursuit of Marwan, death in the Marshland,” published in mindanews.com a week after the Mamasapano Tragedy.
Tupas won an all-expenses paid trip to Brussels where he will meet with peace interlocutors in September.
A press release from the EU listed the following semi-finalists for written text in print media category: Nash Maulana of inquirer.net and Philippine Daily Inquirer; Ruji Peter Abat of Sun Star Davao. For the online category, semi-finalists were Joan Cordero of News Central Ph; Fritzi Rodriguez of Rappler .
Jonathan Cellona of ABS-CBN News was semi-finalist for the photo essay category.
Special citations were also given to Gigi Grande of ABS-CBN; Bernardino Testa of Interaksyon; Voltaire Tupaz of Rappler; Gianna Francesca Catolico and Cristi Ilagan of Plaridel (De La Salle University).
The winners received trophies, gadgets and certificates.
The Board of Judges for the EU Peace Journalism Awards were composed of EU Ambassador Guy Ledoux, Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panel chair Mohagher Iqbal as chair of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission; Rowena Carranza Paraan, chair of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines; and Dr. Mark Torres of the Mindanao State University’s Institute for Peace and Development.
Meanwhile, Ledoux reiterated the commitment of the European Union to “continue to support the Mindanao Peace Process, both politically and in terms of development assistance.”
The EU has responded to the request of the government and MILF peace panels for the EU to “put in place an Election Monitoring Mission whenever the plebiscite envisaged in the Bangsamoro Basic Law is called”, Ledoux said in his statement. (Mindanews)
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