Tri-media personality Bobby Nalzaro sings with the band during the same Press Freedom Week closing party. (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO)
The 22nd Press Freedom Week ended with a blast as print, broadcast and online journalists from all beats in Cebu came dressed in replicated police uniforms, had scrawled doodles to look like tattoos on their backs, and dramatized the events that comprised the nation’s Senate hearings on drug-related cases along with a couple of hugot lines and dance moves.
Rising to the challenge of delivering their best lines under the theme “Dutertism,” everyone stepped up their games one last time for the comical skit competition, which was held during the closing ceremony of this year’s Press Freedom Week celebration on Saturday night at Basement 2 of Robinsons Galleria, Cebu city. The closing event has annually been hosted by San Miguel Corp.
Media practitioners from Cebu’s Defense and Police Press Corps (Depp) emerged as the winners.
Staging Operation Tokhang scenarios, which they covered religiously in the past few months, Depp nailed their performance as they bested all other media beats and brought home the P10,000 prize.
LENS, the group of Cebu’s photojournalists, performs to the crowd during the culmination party of the 22nd Press Freedom Week celebration held on Saturday at Robinsons Galleria Cebu. (CDN PHOTO / FERDINAND EDRALIN)
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Depp garnered an average score of 93.33 per cent from three judges, which included Philippine Press Institute (PPI) executive director Ariel Sebellino.
Last year’s defending champion, Cebu’s photojournalists called LENS, was second place, with a 7,000 cash prize; while the Capitol Association of Reporters in Tri-media (Cart) was third and received a cash prize of P5,000.
Criteria for this year’s comical skit contest was 50 percent for execution, 30 percent for creativity, 15 percent for costume and five percent for audience impact.
Eight out of eleven media beat groups in Cebu, including Cebu City Hall Association of Reporters in Media (Charm), Media in Cebu South (Mics), Rejoice, Depp, Association of Reporters in Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu for Integrity Truth and Equality (Armalite), and Media Alliance for Law, Liberty, Equality and Truth (Mallet) also brought to life a variety of stories, impersonations, parodies and dramatizations of actual news.
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