PASIG CITY – Print and broadcast media executives from Luzon and the Visayas met here yesterday for a forum on the Peace Journalism Fellows sponsored by the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication in coordination with the Philippine Press Institute and the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas.

The gathering held at the Linden Suites here, aims to create a core of print and broadcast media practitioners to be considered as “Peace Journalism Fellows” to report on conflict situations, Ramon Tuazon, president of the AIJC, said.

Speakers at the forum included, aside from Tuazon, Dr. Crispin Maslog and Jose Pavia of the PPI, Antonia Kong of the International Peace and Conflict Journalism Network, and Ana Lourdes Lopez, associate director of the AIJC.

The forum took up the criteria, guidelines and other features of the proposed fellowships that will include a grant in the United Nations Development Program through the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process.

Among those invited to give inputs at the forum were PPI trustee Juan Mercado, DAILY STAR editor-in-chief Ninfa Leonardia, station manager Edward Abad of ABC 5 Cebu and Henry Maceda of TV-RPN Legazpi, Leia Castro of Baguio Midland Courier, Rod Cornejo of GMA-7 and Jose Torres of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.*

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