15th Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Workshop
October 19-26, 2011
University of the Philippines - College of Mass Communication
Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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| The fellows with workshop speakers and organizers |
Although born and raised in Bacolod City, JM Agreda, 25, started his journalistic writing roots in Baguio City. He was one of the founders of Ubbog Cordillera Young Writers Inc. in 2007. He started writing for Sun.Star Baguio as a weekly youth columnist in 2008 and now works for the paper as a regular reporter. He was also part of the team that started a community weekly newspaper in the region called Baguio Chronicle in 2009. Aside from journalism, he also dabbles into poetry and fiction writing in his regional language Hiligaynon.
Ferdinandh "Ferdhs" Ballentes Cabrera is a graduate of BS Development Communication at University of Southern Mindanao, Kabacan, North Cotabato in the year 2003. He is based now in Cotabato City covering Central Mindanao areas for GMA Network Inc. as news stringer. He started as a local news correspondent in 2004 at ABS-CBN Regional Network Group based in Cotabato City. At present, he contributes stories for Mindanews Online and Mindanao Cross local weekly paper. He is currently studying for a one year diploma course on Multimedia Journalism at the Ateneo Center for Journalism.
Leonardo Vicente B. Corrales is currently a staff reporter for the Mindanao News and Information Cooperative Center's (MNICC) news web portal www.mindanews.com and correspondent of Mindanao Gold Star Daily, a Cagayan de Oro-based daily newspaper.
Joseph Ben “JB” R. Deveza is a correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer based in Cagayan de Oro City. As correspondent for the Inquirer, Mr. Deveza has covered the national and local elections and has done news and feature stories on crime, the communist insurgency, and attacks on journalists. Mr. Deveza is also the coordinator of the Mindanao Media Safety Office of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) which responds to and documents attacks on Mindanao journalists.
Bobby Q. Labalan presently works as Managing Editor of a Bicol-based news agency, Media Solutions. The news agency was founded by him with the objective of helping local media men earn additional income. This he hopes would minimize the “envelopmental journalism” which has been so common among local radio reporters. As member of the national directorate of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) he has been advocating for a corruption-free press in the province. Having started as a mere field reporter he rose from the ranks and been appointed to head the station where he first worked. He organized the Sorsogon Organization of News writers and Reporters (SONAR) in 1994 as a way of promoting the welfare of the reporters and news writers who are the work horses of the stations. Presently, he is the chairman of the NUJP-Sorsogon chapter where he pushed for the setting up of a fund to be used for a livelihood program to augment their members’ income. He also conducted training for campus journalists in Bicol region where he never failed to inject the value of ethics believing that those who want to become journalists must have the right orientation.
Mr. Renato Macaspac, fondly called Macky by friends and family is currently a photographer/writer of Pinoy Weekly for two years now. Before joining Pinoy Weekly, he used to work with a peasant organization in Northern Luzon as a community organizer and education officer. He stayed in Northern Luzon for 10 years, after which he was the medial liaison officer of a children's rights and welfare organization based in Quezon City.
Ronalyn V. Olea writes mainly for Bulatlat.com, an alternative online media outfit. She also contributes to other publications. She is a proud mother to a two-year-old daughter.
Kim Arveen Patria, 21, is a journalism student from the University of the Philippines Diliman graduating this October. His undergraduate thesis is an evaluation of the Office of the Ombudsman’s policies on access to information. For his internship, he covered the 2010 presidential elections for Yahoo! Southeast Asia. He was also features editor for Tinig ng Plaridel, the official student publication of the UP Diliman College of Mass Communication. Some of Kim’s works also appeared in Vera Files and the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Youngblood. Kim also occasionally writes political and social commentary in his blog. Kim was president of UP Sorsogueños, an organization of students in UP Diliman who hail from Sorsogon. He was also publication officer for anti-poverty organization Kabataan Kontra Kahirapan. Early this year, Kim co-authored a research paper on technical and vocational education and training in the Asia-Pacific region for the Asia and South Pacific Bureau for Basic and Adult Education.
Mr. Ryan Rosauro is a correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in Mindanao for some 10 years now. Has done in-depth reports on rural development, local governance, the Moro and communist insurgencies, elections, energy and natural resource use. He holds a BS in Accountancy degree; currently finishing MA in Conflict and Reconciliation Studies and is a member of the NUJP National Directorate.
Lady Ann Salem is a video journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker for alternative media outfit Tudla Productions. She has been the group's Executive Director since 2008. Her time and work in Tudla Productions includes the re-introduction and propagation of the newsreel since 2009, launch of the annual Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival since 2009 (now on its third year), the group's venture to short narrative filmmaking and production of literary folios in 2011. She finished her Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Communication in the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication. She is currently taking up a Master of Development Communication course at the University of the Philippines Open University. She was among the proponents of the Top 5 Outstanding Projects in the French American Charitable Trust Social Justice contest in 2010 in Netsquared.org where she proposed Citizen Patrol, a citizen journalism and reporting program that is not in the hands of corporate media. She is currently among the 9 participants of ReelTimeReal, the Goethe-Institut Philippines year-long documentary workshop series, where her output will be a documentary on women's reproductive health situation.
Ritche T. Salgado, called Tribo by his friends, is a freelance journalist based in Central Visayas. Currently, he’s a correspondent for The FREEMAN and occasionally contributes to Bulatlat. He has a degree of Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from Our Lady of Fatima University in Quezon City, and got his license in 2002, a year after graduation. In 2003, he started working for the newspaper industry as an account executive for Inquirer Publications, Inc. based in Cebu City. Since then he has been writing lifestyle and marketing articles for various publications. In 2008, he was given the position of sub-section editor for the Lifestyle page of The FREEMAN, handling the youth and kids pages. At the same time, he started writing for Bulatlat, covering stories on human rights, agriculture, environment, and politics in Central Visayas, particularly in Cebu City. In mid-2010, he relocated to Dumaguete City and since then he has been writing for The FREEMAN as correspondent for the Region page and at the same time as Lifestyle writer, with focus on health and society.
Raymund B. Villanueva is currently the director for radio of Kodao Productions. He hosts a radio program over DZUP 1602 khz (Sali Na, Bayan, on air from two to
Michelle Castro Zoleta is a Quezon-based journalist. News correspondent of The Philippine Star since August , 2008 . News reporter of DZJV 1458, based in Laguna. Previously news correspondent of Reader’s Point in Quezon; previous General Manager of ADN SundayNEWS, a weekly community newspaper in Quezon; publisher of Dyurnalismo Newspaper and WordPress Newspaper, both in Quezon.
Ma. Cecilia De Los Reyes works for the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She is fondly called Che by her friends.
14th Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Workshop 2005
University of the Philippines - College of Mass Communication
Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Grace Albasin
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Cagayan de Oro
Noel Sales Barcelona
Pinoy Weekly
Filemon Baturiano
City Hall Matters/Bikol Mail/Bikol Reporter
Naga City
Teresa Campos
DWPE - Radyo ng Bayan
Tuguegarao City
John Anthony Conception
ABS-CBN Online
Agnes Dimzon
The Visayas Examiner
Iloilo City
Jose Alfonso Geralde
Aquinas University
Romano Cortes Jorge
Manila Times
Jennifer Manongdo
Manila Bulletin
Thelma Murillo
House of Representatives
Portia Palma
Philippine Information Agency
Alan Pelayo
University of Northeastern Philippines
Naga City
Ilang-Ilang Quijano
Pinoy Weekly
Cepheus Quinones
Radyo Natin Zambales
Zambales
Ismael Talili
Cagayan de Oro College
Cagayan de Oro City
Miriam Torrecampo
People's Tonight
Laarni Capina
Amore Academy
Marilou Guieb
Women's Feature Service
