Friday, July 04, 2008
UP honors Seares with Gawad Plaridel (10 p.m.)
CEBU CITY -- Pachico A. Seares, editor-in-chief of Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita (Cebu), in his lecture on “The Future of Community Newspapers” thanked the University of the Philippines System for recognizing that “out there we have a struggling, yet never-say-die community press which, despite flaws and infirmities, is doing what the Manila-based media cannot do well alone."
Seares is this year’s awardee of the UP Gawad Plaridel, the “sole award in the University of the Philippines System given to outstanding media practitioners."
The Sun.Star editor is the second awardee from print (the first being Eugenia Apostol in 2004) and the first awardee for community journalism. He is the first male awardee, after Apostol, Vilma Santos (film, 2005), Fidela “Tia Dely" Magpayo (radio, 2006), and Cecilia “Cheche" Lazaro (television, 2007).
The Napoleon Abueva trophy was presented to Seares by UP vice president for academic affairs Amelia P. Guevara, chancellor Sergio S. Cao, and College of Mass Communications dean Elena E. Pernia Friday at the Cine Adarna in UP Diliman, Quezon City.
Seares credited the award to community journalists all over the country “whose collective work persuaded the UP System, through its College of Mass Communications, to consider community journalism as worthy of recognition and to look beyond Manila for its awardee.” (Sun.Star Cebu) |
