MINDANAO-BASED journalist Jefry Tupas of the Davao City-based Newsdesk is the Grand Winner of the EU Peace Journalism Awards.
Tupas won the grand prize for his article, “The Teachers of Raja Muda.” He received the award during the awarding ceremonies on July 8 at the Hotel Intercontinental in Makati City.
Three were named grand finalists or winners in their respective categories: Tupas for online; editor Stella Estremera 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.
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). (mindanews)
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