Quezon City, Philippines — Veteran journalist and media advocate Melinda Quintos De Jesus has been named the 2026 recipient of the University of the Philippines Gawad Plaridel, the UP College of Mass Communication announced July 20. De Jesus is the founder of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) and is widely […]
The University of the Philippines Diliman College of Mass Communication will be awarding actor, satirist, and advertising creative Manuel Urbano Jr., popularly known on television, film and the internet as “Mr. Shooli”, this year’s Gawad Plaridel on October 11, 2023, at 2 pm, at the UP Film Institute Film Center’s Cine Adarna. Urbano Jr. will […]
Gawad Plaridel recipient for 2018 Jessica Soho, a broadcast journalist, talked about her career before Mass Communication students, scholars, and practitioners from different schools and organizations, in a skills enhancement seminar on January 21, 2019 in the UP Film Institute Studio, UP Diliman.