Cheats Won!
NEWSBREAK's story on the Batasan break-in as part of the administration's continuing effort to manipulate the 2004 presidential vote won the 2nd prize in this year's Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ).
"Cheats Inc.," written by assistant managing editor Miriam Grace A. Go and published on Sept. 12, 2005, was adjudged in the investigative category for non-daily publications.
Two more NEWSBREAK reports made it to the finals of the annual awards. Online editor Gemma B. Bagayaua's "Guns and Gold," a three-part series on the various groups exploiting the mines of Mt. Diwalwal (published on Dec. 5 and 19, 2005, and on Jan. 30, 2006), was a finalist in the investigative category for non-daily publications.
"Broken Promises," the first story in the Philippine media that exposed the College Assurance Plan's refusal to address its impending bankruptcy as early as 2002, was a finalist in the explanatory category for non-dailies. It was written by business editor Lala Rimando and contributing writers Cathy Rose Garcia and Elena Torrijos. Published three months before the CAP scandal broke out, the story triggered a Senate probe into the pre-need industry.
For this year, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, which administers the JVOAEJ, introduced a system where stories in the dailies and non-dailies were judged separately in the two categories, investigative and explanatory. Considered for this year were stories that came out in 2005.
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