PIA Press Release
05/16/2006
Davao youth TV reporters join Manila workshops
by RG Alama
Davao City (16 May) -- Three youth television reporters of the Kabataan News Network-Davao City Bureau recently underwent a four-day workshop in Manila last May 9-12, to upgrade their skills in television reporting.
Held in Astoria Plaza Suites in Ortigas Center in Pasig City, the National workshops entitled "Sensitizing Children and Youth in Human Rights: Appreciating the rights and humanity of others." Aims to arm the KNN reporters with basic awareness and knowledge on human rights that would reflect on their reportage of the various stories that they would produced.
The three Davao reporters; Nidjee Oquialda, 17; Mark Lloyd Revilla, 17 and Alberto Egot Jr. 17,were part of the 38 youth reporters which had come from different KNN bureaus across the country.
Among the speakers in the workshop facilitated by Hope Abella a noted child rights advocate were; Cheche Lazaro who spoke on the power of media and the consecutive duty of the reporters to be balance, fair and truthful.
United Nations Childrens Fund (Unicef) Communications Director Dale Rutstein emphasized the Kabataan News Network as a rights based media outfit made specifically for the youth.
Among the varied speakers who participated in the workshop were; Atty. Marlon Manuel of Saligan alternative law group. Ms. Marie Ann Cayas of Amnesty International, Ms. Grace Alejandrino of the Council for the Protection of Children, Professor Marivic Leonen of the UP law school, Commissioner Evelyn Dunuan of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women and Ms. Matet Diokno of the Freedom from Debt Coalition.
The speakers explained the concept of human rights and gave situationer on the current human rights situation in the Philippines touching on Child and women's rights, economic social and political rights issues.
Aside from workshop, the reporters also visited the Supreme Court of the Philippines were they were briefed by Supreme Court Senior Deputy Administrator Zenaida Elipaño on the new rules of procedure on the examination of child-witness.
Aside from workshops and briefings, the youth reporters took part in the pictorial sessions for the new KNN show billboard, which promises to be more cooler hippier and trendier and more attuned to its format being a youth tele-magazine show.
KNN is a weekly tele-magazine show produced by Unicef, Plan International and Probe Media Foundation Incoprorated. A groundbreaking program in Philippine television in which youth reporters ages 13-19 years old coming from 13 different locales in the country including Davao wholly produce various segments which is in turn shown on nationwide Television.
Conceptualized as a ultimate platform of youth _expression, the Kabataan News Network reporters' works are shown on the KNN show at ABC 5 every 3 p.m. Saturdays. (PIA)
by RG Alama
Davao City (16 May) -- Three youth television reporters of the Kabataan News Network-Davao City Bureau recently underwent a four-day workshop in Manila last May 9-12, to upgrade their skills in television reporting.
Held in Astoria Plaza Suites in Ortigas Center in Pasig City, the National workshops entitled "Sensitizing Children and Youth in Human Rights: Appreciating the rights and humanity of others." Aims to arm the KNN reporters with basic awareness and knowledge on human rights that would reflect on their reportage of the various stories that they would produced.
The three Davao reporters; Nidjee Oquialda, 17; Mark Lloyd Revilla, 17 and Alberto Egot Jr. 17,were part of the 38 youth reporters which had come from different KNN bureaus across the country.
Among the speakers in the workshop facilitated by Hope Abella a noted child rights advocate were; Cheche Lazaro who spoke on the power of media and the consecutive duty of the reporters to be balance, fair and truthful.
United Nations Childrens Fund (Unicef) Communications Director Dale Rutstein emphasized the Kabataan News Network as a rights based media outfit made specifically for the youth.
Among the varied speakers who participated in the workshop were; Atty. Marlon Manuel of Saligan alternative law group. Ms. Marie Ann Cayas of Amnesty International, Ms. Grace Alejandrino of the Council for the Protection of Children, Professor Marivic Leonen of the UP law school, Commissioner Evelyn Dunuan of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women and Ms. Matet Diokno of the Freedom from Debt Coalition.
The speakers explained the concept of human rights and gave situationer on the current human rights situation in the Philippines touching on Child and women's rights, economic social and political rights issues.
Aside from workshop, the reporters also visited the Supreme Court of the Philippines were they were briefed by Supreme Court Senior Deputy Administrator Zenaida Elipaño on the new rules of procedure on the examination of child-witness.
Aside from workshops and briefings, the youth reporters took part in the pictorial sessions for the new KNN show billboard, which promises to be more cooler hippier and trendier and more attuned to its format being a youth tele-magazine show.
KNN is a weekly tele-magazine show produced by Unicef, Plan International and Probe Media Foundation Incoprorated. A groundbreaking program in Philippine television in which youth reporters ages 13-19 years old coming from 13 different locales in the country including Davao wholly produce various segments which is in turn shown on nationwide Television.
Conceptualized as a ultimate platform of youth _expression, the Kabataan News Network reporters' works are shown on the KNN show at ABC 5 every 3 p.m. Saturdays. (PIA)
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