Cebu Daily News publisher is McLuhan fellow
Cebu Daily News publisher is chosen to be the 2013 Marshall McLuhan Fellow by the Embassy of Canada.
Eileen Mangubat, who is also the acting editor-in-chief of Cebu Daily News is “recognized for her noteworthy efforts to steer and maintain an independent and professional community press in Cebu.”
She is the third community journalist to receive the McLuhan Fellowship.
The Marshall McLuhan Fellowship is a flagship public diplomacy initiative of the Embassy of Canada in Manila and was launched in 1997. This program is unique to the Philippines.
The fellowship is part of the embassy’s initiative to encourage responsible journalism in the Philippines that supports the belief that a strong media is essential to improving democratic governance.
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) assists the embassy in choosing a journalist who has either published an outstanding piece of investigative report or holds a collective body of journalistic work that contributes to positive change in the social arena that has raised the level of public discourse in a relevant issue.
The program, with financial support from Sun Life of Canada, provides the winner with a study tour to Canada on February 2014.
This will be an opportunity to interact with media counterparts and to discuss current governance issues with Canadian government officials and members of civil society. Mangubat will also have the chance to sit as a fellow at the McLuhan Institute in Toronto.
Canada’s Ambassador to the Philippines Neil Reeder will present the award to Mangubat on Tuesday, December 3, 9 a.m., at her inaugural lecture at the Marcelo B. Fernan Press Center in Lahug, Cebu City.
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