Senior Reporter Ador Mayol is this year’s Globe Media Excellence Awardee for Reporter of the Year. He is with CDN Publisher Eileen Mangubat. (CDN PHOTO/ CHRISTIAN MANINGO)
For the third straight year, senior reporter Ador Vincent Mayol of Cebu Daily News (CDN) was named Reporter of the Year for print in the Globe Media Excellence Awards.
His winning entry “The Prodigal Son Returns” looked into reforms pursued by Cebu provincial jail warden Marco Toral, a former drug dependent, in the last of a six-part special report published last May.
CDN’s environment warrior Gloria Estenzo-Ramos won the Columnist of the Year Award for her Monday column “Mindfully Greenie”.
Her entry “Waste pollution in our midst” in Aug. 11, 2014 discussed the threat of unabated trash dumped in the sea.
Specially designed trophies were handed out last night for the GMEA in award rites held at the Grand Convention Center of Cebu as a highlight of the Cebu Press Freedom Week celebration.
CDN won in two out of four print categories.
The annual awards pay tribute to the best work of print, broadcast, and digital media practitioners in the Visayas.
A total of 688 entries were submitted by media organizations in Cebu, Bacolod and Iloilo in nine categories.
CDN publisher and acting editor in chief Eileen Mangubat was recognized as the handling editor of Mayol. She also received the trophy on behalf of columnist Ramos, who was in Manila.
POWERFUL STORIES
In presenting the award to Mayol, organizers said: “The Reporter of the Year for Print demonstrated that there is an art to gathering information and transforming it into powerful stories. At this point, the recipient of this award can say that he has already excelled in this art.”
For columnist Estenzo-Ramos, the contest judges said she “has proven to provide sharp analyses of issues that affect us. Through the opinion pieces of (this) awardee, we were able to come up with a deeper understanding of events that make the headlines.”
Mayol, CDN senior reporter who is assigned to cover the church and justice beats, said he credits his success to divine intercession.
“This is truly God’s work. I am grateful to be a recipient of His mercy. May the Lord be praised through every story that I and all journalists make each day,” he said.
BEST WORK
Other GMEA winners:
Cherry Ann Lim and Liberty Pinili (Sun Star Cebu) for Explanatory / Investigative Story of the Year for print in “Fish in the troubled waters”.
Patricia Andrea Patena (TV 5) won two awards – Explanatory / Investigative Story of the Year for TV and Reporter of the Year for TV. Her entry ‘Tusok-Tusok” portrayed the life of a drug dependent who relies on injectable drugs.
Alex Badayos (Sun Star Cebu) was chosen Photojournalist of the Year. Rowena Capistrano (radio dyRF) won Radio Reporter of the Year.
Gladys Reyes of Bacolod City won as Blogger of the Year for her piece “Vanishing Treasures of Negros” and Social Media Advocate of the Year Award for her posts about the loss of forest cover in Negros Oriental.
The contest criteria was content (50%) adherence to truth and responsible journalism, style (25%) and social impact (25%).
In a taped video message to the audience, Ernesto Cu, Globe Telecom president and CEO, said the 2015 GMEA has many firsts.
He said this year Globe was using a new logo and trophy design and included for the first time entries from other parts of the Visayas.
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