A student and an academic staff of the MA Journalism program of the Graduate School hauled journalism awards for their news outlets and the University on November 8, 2024, during the 2023 Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP) Annual Awards.
MA in Journalism candidate Tyrone Jasper Piad won the Best Business Feature Award for his three-part series in 2023 “The costs of mobility and the increasing use of cycling,” done for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This series was the capstone requirement for the course Data Journalism. The articles are as follows:
● Part 1: Cost of mobility: As prices bite, some consumers turn to active transport
● Part 2: Cost of mobility: Philippines promises to pave better road networks for bikers
● Part 3: Coming soon: Road map for active transport
Piad is actually a back-to-back winner for Best Business Feature for EJAP. Last year, Piad won for his 2022 story with his former outlet BusinessMirror titled “Village people’s zest won’t let Covid stop the music of business.”
MA in Journalism lecturer Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas also won, this time as the Agriculture and Mining Reporter of the Year. Arcalas, a 2024 graduate who’s a newly hired lecturer at the BA in Journalism program, has been winning national awards and one international award while being a scholar for The Varsitarian, studying in the graduate journalism program.