PPI cites Daily Guardian for Reporting on Migration Issues

Daily Guardian won the first ever Best in Reporting on Migration Issues in the Philippine Press Institute’s 2020 Civic Journalism Community Press Awards held Friday, October 8, 2021.

The citation was first included in this year’s Civic Journalism Community Press Awards in partnership with the International Labor Organization and its Fair Recruitment Initiative.

Daily Guardian was recognized for reporting on the situation face by repatriated overseas Filipinos amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many of whom were stranded in Manila before they were allowed to travel back to their home provinces. Although many of the stories published were on repatriated overseas Filipinos, some articles also featured overseas Filipinos being part of the community in their host countries.

 

LABOR MIGRATION REPORTING

PPI instituted labor migration reporting after community journalists under its wings met online this year with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) to discuss the need for increased coverage of labor migration issues.

The webinar-orientation on labor migration, held on May 14, 2021, was organized by ILO and AIJC in partnership with PPI under the Fair Recruitment Initiative program of ILO.

Also during the webinar, the “Best in Reporting on Migration Issues” category for the annual PPI Civic Journalism Community Press Awards was launched.

Resource persons during the meeting were Hussein Macarambon, ILO Project Coordinator; Charles Autheman, ILO Media and Migration Consultant; Dr. Thomas Aquino, AIJC Trustee and NOW Corporation Chair; Ariel Sebellino, PPI Executive Director; and Ann Lourdes Lopez, AIJC Senior Director.