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Office of the Vice President Receives Official Replica of the 1734 Murillo Velarde Map December 2017 December 2017 Office of the Vice President receives official replica of the 1734 Murillo Velarde map Welcome to Paghahabi Paghahabi is the Filipino term for weaving materials such as textile, mats, baskets. It also means the weaving or telling of stories. In essence, Paghahabi reflects the core competency of AIJC, communication. This competency transmits truth, creates understanding, builds community. It brings together the diversity of warp and woof and interlaces them into a single colorful fabric of Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) Chairman Mel concord and trust. V. Velarde presented an official replica of the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas Manila, 1734, to Vice President Our e-newsletter Paghahabi tells AIJC’s stories. It reflects Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo on September 4, 2017. our efforts to promote understanding amidst The Office of the Vice President expressed appreciation through the diversity through our various following post on its official Facebook page: communication programs and projects and to build a Today, we at the Office of the Vice President received an official network of AIJC partners and stakeholders whose stories replica of the “Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas are intertwined with ours. Filipinas Manila, 1734,” or the 1734 Murillo Velarde map. AIJC is committed to weave It is one of the oldest maps of our country, crafted by a Jesuit a community committed to priest, Father Pedro Murillo Velarde, together with two Filipinos, the common good and the Francisco Suarez and Nicolas dela Cruz Bagay. The map shows best interest especially of marginalized sectors that the entire Philippine archipelago. need the comfort of a warm woven fabric. Mr. Mel Velasco Velarde, a Filipino technology entrepreneur and educator, acquired the original map at a Sotheby’s London auction in 2014 for... 12 million pesos. He is now giving replicas to (Continue on page 8). -1- Paghahabi HAU and AIJC offer joint M.A. in Communication program Holy Angel University (HAU) and the Asian region. Since its founding in 1980, it has been Institute of Journalism and Communication guided by the philosophy that communication is a (AIJC) opened their doors to academics and vital development resource. practitioners in Region III with the launch of their joint M.A. in Communication program. It is offered HAU and AIJC will offer a ladderized master’s at the HAU campus in Angeles City, Pampanga, program to provide professionals with an with visiting professors from AIJC. opportunity for continuing education with the quality standards and diversity needed for The memorandum of agreement on the excellence and career mobility. collaborative offering was signed by HAU president Dr. Luis Maria R. Calingo and AIJC The M.A. in Communication degree will be president Mr. Ramon R. Tuazon on August 1, a groundbreaking graduate program track in 2017. Also present during the MOA signing were business and industry. It will strengthen HAU’s HAU and AIJC offi cials. advanced position in the region as a leader in Integrated Marketing. The sustained socio-economic development of Central Luzon presents an excellent opportunity Classes for the fi rst trimester of school year for AIJC and HAU to offer responsive and 2017-2018 were from July 22 to October 28, relevant graduate education to communication 2017. The subjects offered were Communication professionals. Issues, Corporate Communication, and Integrated Marketing Communication. Classes HAU is recognized by the Commission on Higher for the second trimester are ongoing and will Education (CHED) as a Center of Development run until March 2018. Subjects offered for the (COD) for seven academic areas critical to second trimester are Craft of Communication, business and industry development: in Business Knowledge Management, and Management of Administration, in the different Engineering fi elds, Communication Resources. in Teacher Education, in Information Technology, and in Hotel and Restaurant Management. For inquiries on admissions, please contact Prof. Leslie S. Manalo of HAU at 0995-7553020 or AIJC is one of the leading communication [email protected]. institutions in the country and in the ASEAN AIJC e-Newsletter -2- December 2017 Defending journalism in countries notorious for challenging press freedom The Philippines is one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists and media workers. Eight years have passed since 32 of them were killed—out of a total of 58 people—in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province, on November 23, 2009. Globally, the Ampatuan massacre is the single deadliest event for the press, but the members of the Philippine news media persist in their duties despite the relentless attacks they receive up to the present, both online and offl ine. IMS global editors Elisabeth Witchel and Esben With similar challenges experienced by journalists Q. Harboe collaborated with a team from AIJC— all over the globe, it has become more urgent to Ramon R. Tuazon, Therese Patricia C. San fi nd “ways to protect the practice of journalism,” Diego, Ann Lourdes C. Lopez, and Daniel R. says press freedom nonprofi t organization Abunales—for the section on the Philippines. International Media Support (IMS). The section provides an overview about the This was what IMS envisioned when it put country’s “vibrant” news media “beset by some together a comparative analysis of locally of the highest rates of violence and impunity driven journalist safety practices and national in the world.” It discusses the threats and mechanisms that seek to protect the news media challenges faced by Filipino journalists; the state and address impunity in seven countries— responses and legislation concerning journalist Afghanistan, Colombia, Indonesia, Iraq, Nepal, safety; key safety mechanisms and programs Pakistan, and the Philippines. by media NGOs, the government, civil society organizations, and academe; and the role in the The result is a publication titled “Defending Philippines of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety Journalism,” launched by IMS on November 18 of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. at the Pinnacle Hotel, Davao City, in partnership with the National Union of Journalists of the “Defending Journalism” is available at https:// Philippines (NUJP) and the Asian Institute of www.mediasupport.org/publication/defending- Journalism and Communication (AIJC). journalism/. -3- Paghahabi AIJC president and CHED TCC chairman Tuazon conducts orientation on new CMOs Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication The TCC chairperson challenged the heads of (AIJC) president and Commission on Higher communication units to adopt interdisciplinary Education (CHED) Technical Committee for and multidisciplinary perspectives and to Communication (TCC) chairperson Ramon R. pursue a “seamless” curriculum delivery mode. Tuazon conducted an orientation on CHED’s According to him, “To be seamless means your new policies, standards, and guidelines functions of instruction, research, and extension for communication-related programs on 23 should be interconnected rather than pursued November 2017 at Bayview Park Hotel. More independently. It also means interrelating the than 100 communication educators from higher different subjects so that learners are able to education institutions (HEIs) all over the country have a holistic education.” attended the event. The BA Communication degree now offers The implementation of CHED Memorandum four tracks: Political Communication, Creative Order (CMO) 35, series of 2017 (Bachelor of and Performing Arts, Communication and Arts in Communication) and CMO 36, series Sociocultural Change, and New Media. Tuazon of 2017 (Bachelor of Science in Development clarifi ed that HEIs can develop their own Communication) will start in Academic Year 2018- track based on their institutional and program 2019. outcomes. Tuazon reminded HEIs to adopt the degree titles as required in the new CMOs. He also highlighted Asian Institute of Journalism that the total units for BA Communication and Communication is 125 while the total for BS Development NOW Planet.TV Bldg., Sampaloc Manila Communication is 128. Tel: 632 743 4321 | 740 0396 Email: [email protected] Website: www.aijc.com.ph AIJC e-Newsletter -4- December 2017 AIJC “disrupts” journalist safety conference in Norway “What is it in the big picture that perpetuates the Urging the group to engage in equally “disturbing ‘practice of impunity’ in the killing of journalists and disruptive” discussions during the and other media workers worldwide?” conference, he posed another question: “Could it be that there is public apathy in places where the Ramon R. Tuazon, president of the Asian Institute people are over-entertained and under-informed of Journalism and Communication (AIJC), raised because of too much media commercialism?” this question at the conference on safety of journalists covering confl ict and sensitive issues. He suggested that researchers examine how He was invited by the research group Media, War the younger generation perceives journalist and Confl ict (MEKK) to give a response to the killings. He wondered aloud how the group can keynote speech of Jackie Harrison, joint head inspire millennials—who are “broadly (and at of department and director of research at the times unfairly) characterized as self-absorbed Department of Journalism Studies, University of and ambitious”—to take the defense of the news Sheffi eld. media as an advocacy. He said more young researchers
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