Bulatlat adds yet another feather to its cap this year by making it once more to the list of finalists for the Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ). This is Bulatlat’s third time to be chosen as a finalist for the said award.

Dabet Castañeda’s “For Land and Wages: Half a Century of Peasant Struggle at Hacienda Luisita,” which was reprinted by the Philippine Graphic on its Jan. 3-10 and 17, 2005 issues, is one of six finalists from non-daily publications in the investigative category.

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), in cooperation with the Ateneo de Manila University, will announce the winners on June 29 at a program to be held at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Conference Center in Makati.

The awards ceremony will follow the Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar which starts at 9:30 a.m. As has been the practice since 1995, selected finalists participate in a panel discussion about their articles and take questions from the audience, especially journalism faculty and students.

The JVOAEJ is an annual event aimed to promote the practice of investigative and explanatory reporting.

FINALISTS:

Investigative Category

Daily

Bailout costs too much for deposit insurer

Norman P. Aquino

BusinessWorld

November 29-December 1, 2005

Tracing the trail of the tape

Fe Zamora and Gerry Lirio

Philippine Daily Inquirer

September 17-18, 2005

Border dispute leaves Dumagats in quandary

Fritz Dacpano

The Manila Times

April 25-26, 2005

Palawan’s gas pains

Jofelle Tesorio

Philippine Daily Inquirer

January 13, 2005

CAP:  From pre-need’s poster boy to whipping boy

Daxim L. Lucas and Elizabeth L. Sanchez

Philippine Daily Inquirer

September 19-21, 2005

Non-Daily

So young and so trapo

Avigail Olarte

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Published in i Report

September 2005

Running on taxpayers’ money

Luz Rimban

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Published in i Report

September 2005

Guns and gold

Gemma B. Bagayaua

Newsbreak

December 5, 19, 2005 and January 30, 2006

Major players elude government’s anti-logging drive in Aurora

Luz Rimban

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Published in BusinessWorld, Cebu Daily News, Malaya, Philippine Daily Inquirer and Sun Star Daily on January 31-February 1, 2005

For land and wages 

Half a century of peasant struggle at Hacienda Luisita

Dabet Castañeda

Bulatlat.com

Published in Philippine Graphic on January 3-10, 2005 and January 17, 2005

Cheats Inc.

Miriam Grace A. Go

Newsbreak

September 12, 2005

Explanatory Category

Daily Division

The economics of corruption

D’Laarni A. Ortiz, Larissa Josephine C. Villa, Roulee Jane F. Calayag, Ehden Llave-Pelaez

(Noel G. Reyes, Editor)

BusinessWorld

July 19, 2005

Philippine economic progress since 1988

The ‘good old days’

John Mangun

BusinessMirror

December 1-3, 2005

Electronic ears listen with bugs and taps

Fil V. Elefante

The Manila Times

June 27-29, 2005

Graduating class:  Education, labor mismatch

Norman P. Aquino

BusinessWorld

March 10, 2005

Confrontation to cooperation?

Labor-management relations evolve in globalization era

Dave Llorito

BusinessMirror

November 2, 2005

Non-Daily

Mutants on your plate

Alan C. Robles

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Published in i Report

January-March 2005

Focus on Filipino youth:

Perils of generation sex

Cheryl Chan

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Published in i Report

September 2005

Broken promises

Lala Rimando, Cathy Rose Garcia and Elena Torrijos

Newsbreak

January 31, 2005

Trained to care

Avigail Olarte

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Published in i Report

January-March 2005

Bataan nuke power plant:  Still unused, still paying for it

Lidy Nacpil and Mae Buenaventura

Philippine Graphic

March 14, 2005

Mama can’t eat

Vinia M. Datinguinoo

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Published in i Report

January-March 2005

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