Oblate journo bags Globe Media Excellence Award
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Malu Cadelina Manar, director for AM programming of the Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (NDBC) in North Cotabato, poses with other winners of this year's Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA). Manar recieves one of the most coveted awards, Report
DAVAO CITY – Oblate journalist Malu Cadelina Manar, also director for operations of the AM programming of the Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (NDBC) in North Cotabato, bagged this year’s Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA) for Reporter of the Year for Radio.
Manar received the award, her first for GMEA, at the Marco Polo Hotel here, on November 22.
Her winning piece is an episode of weekly Bida Specials entitled, ‘Ketongand Ang Kwento ni Nanay Loring (Leprosyand The Story of Mother Loring).The selection of the best among hundreds of entries coming from different parts of the island submitted this year for the awards touched on four focus areasand care for environment, innate care for people, positive societal impact, and digital nation.
Of the 444 entries submitted, 84 were shortlisted, among them Manar’s Bida Specials.Aside from Reporter of the Year for Radio, the company has also awarded Reporter of the Year for print, TV, and online Photo Journalist of the Year Columnist of the Year and Explanatory/Investigative Story of the Year for print, TV, and online. The critical role of media organizations and online communities in forming and shaping public opinion makes it imperative for technology organizations like Globe to encourage excellence in this field as we all aspire to effect societal change, Globe Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications Yoly Crisanto said.
The Bida Specials, a 30-minute radio features and documentaries aired every Saturday over NDBC’s AM stations in South and Central Mindanao, had already won several accolades from different award-giving bodies, including the prestigious Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA), Golden Dove Awards, Bright Leaf Awards, Indigenous Voices in Asia, and Humanitarian Reporting Awards of the International Committee of the Red Cross.The program, which started its maiden broadcast on August 2012, highlights stories, struggles, issues, and concerns of the poor and those considered ‘voiceless’ whose tales are barely heard on mainstream media.
Manar, who also heads NDBC’s Broadcast Support Services, has been hosting the program for four years now. sand//scontent.fmnl4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t34.0-12/15209209_10210245582190251_1647543625_n.jpg?oh=a8a88350a41942fabbf13910bb5fc237andampoe=5837395F