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PHILIPPINE MIGRATION JOURNALISM: A Practical HandbookThis 200-paged book compiles articles on the history of overseas employment of Filipinos, the issues and the players in this industry, Philippine media’s coverage of the issues, and a list of government, non-government, private organizations, and other groups that work for or against these issues.Media practitioners, overseas Filipino workers, and development workers will find this handbook useful as well as a light read on the international labor migration that Filipinos form part of.The book costs P250 each in the Philippines, US$16 in North America, and 15 euros in the European Union. Prices include standard postage as well as handling of between 11 to 20 days.Monograph OneMonograph One, on Migration Journalism in the Philippines, contains seven papers on how issues in migration are seen from several vantage points: from that of a daughter of an overseas Filipino worker in a community of OFW families in Batangas to the editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper; from a senior business reporter covering the money that flows from OFWs to a former media liaison officer of a migrant nongovernment group; from the chief executive of a booming Internet-based newspaper to the director of a radio program beaming news on OFWs and the Philippines via shortwave. These papers outlined the work of the OFW Journalism Consortium for the past three years when their authors presented their respective opus at the pontifical University of Santo Tomas on December 7, 2002.Contents :1. “Ano nga ba ang meron sa Italya?: Kuwento ng isang migranteng pamilya ni Aileen Peñas2. Issues and Concerns on Labor Migration in the Philippines: Inputs for Media Reportage by Dennis D. Estopace3. Economic Reportage of International Labor Migration: A Reportorial Perspective by Arnold S. Tenorio4. Community Journalism and Human Capital Flight by Jojo Pasion Malig5. Online Journalism and OFWs: The Inq7.net Experience By Javier Vicente d. Rufino6. The Treatment and Packaging of OFW Stories by a Daily Newspaper: An Editorial Perspective By Lourdes Molina-Fernandez7. The Reportage of OFW Issues on Radio By Tanny V. Rodriguez
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