PPI honors outstanding newspapers

CEBU Daily News was named Best Edited paper in this year’s Annual Community Press Awards.

Handed out by the Philippine Press Institute (PPI), the Community Press Awards honors community newspapers that show oustanding work in editing, science and environmental reporting, business and economic reporting, photojournalism and editorial.

Cebu Daily News won all five honors in the daily category.

The Community Press Awards is now on its tenth year. This year, the finalists were selected from 87 member-newspapers of the Institute. The winners were announced during the Institute’s annual membership meeting in Manila on Monday.

Also given honors in the same event, in partnership with Unicef, were child-friendly newspapers and journalists.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer was named as the Child-Friendly Newspaper in the National Broadsheet category. Winning the same recognition were Mindanao Times (Community Daily) and Baguio Midland Courier (Community Weekly).

Cebu Daily News and the Philippine Daily Inquirer are affiliates.

The full list of winners:

10th Annual Community Press Awards

Photojournalism
Daily: Cebu Daily News
Weekly:

Business and Economic Reporting
Daily: Cebu Daily News
Weekly:

Science and Environmental Reporting
Daily: Cebu Daily News
Weekly:

Editorial
Daily: Cebu Daily News
Weekly:

Editing
Daily: Cebu Daily News
Weekly: Mindanao Bulletin

Fifth Unicef Child Friendly Newspaper and Journalist Awards

Child-Friendly Newspaper of the Year
National broadsheet: Philippine Daily Inquirer
Community daily: Mindanao Times
Community weekly: Baguio Midland Courier

Oustanding Children’s Newspaper
Junior Inquirer (Hall of Fame)

Outstanding column on children
National: “Kids Behind Bars,” Michael Tan, PDI, Aug. 12, 2005
Community: “Pagtingin sa Sikolohiya ng Gifted Child,” Donna Virola, Balikas, Aug. 19-25, 2005

Outstanding Story on Children
National: “The Forgotten Children,” Mylah Reyes Roque, Newsbreak, April 11, 2005
Community: “Special Kids Get Special Hope,” Yolly S. Fuentes, The Pangasinan Star, May 15, 2005

Outstanding Child Writer: Joanne Ang, Southern Leyte Times

Special Recognition, Child-Friendly Magazine: Health Today