Cebu media icon Atty. Pachico A. Seares and Sun. Star Managing Editor Cherry Ann Lim lead the 11 Visayas winners of the Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA) 2019.
Three of the winners are based outside Cebu – Bohol, Tacloban, and Iloilo City.
The winners were announced during the special recognition ceremonies at Radisson Blu Cebu Hotel in Cebu City on September 19, 2019.
The judges are Ahmed Cuizon, regional director of the Land Transportation, Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Region III; Auke Idzenga, chief executive officer of the Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc.; Maria Lea Lara, executive director of the Iloilo Business Club; Atty. Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, co-founder of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP); Sarah Santiago, editor-in-chief of Wonder. ph ; and Eileen Mangubat, senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines Cebu and former publisher & editor-in-chief of Cebu Daily News/Inquirer Publications Inc.
The screeners from the academe are Karlon Rama, University of San Carlos; Mia Embalzado-Mateo, Saint Theresa’s College; Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon, University of the Philippines Cebu; Dr. Maria Teresa Asistido, STI West Negros University; Ivy Gonzales Aboy, University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos; Dr. Nieves Pepito, University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos; Dr. Zoilo Andrada Jr., University of the Philippines Visayas; Zsa Zsa Bacaling, West Visayas State University; and Rhoda Campillan, University of St. Agustin.
The winners of the Mindanao leg of GMEA 2019 will be announced in Davao City this November 2019.
This
year, the Globe Media Excellence Awards pursues a digital direction with four
award categories for digital media entries as it strives to achieve social
impact.
Entries
submitted for this year’s GMEA are anchored towards four sustainable focus
areas, namely, care for the environment, positive societal impact, care for
people, and the digital nation.
Atty. Seares , who
retired as editor in chief of Sun. Star Cebu in 2010, steered the paper since
its birth on November 25, 1982. He is now the paper’s Public and Standards
Editor even as he continues to write several opinion items.
The GMEA 2019
judges chose him as the journalist considered as Newsmaker of the Year. Lim, on
the other hand, won two different awards -- Explanatory/lnvestigative Story/
Documentary of the Year for Print Award and Editor of the Year Award.
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