Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University (ACFJ)
Multimedia key topic in 3rd journ forum Multimedia journalism and the changes in newsrooms and in society that are taking place in its wake is the theme of this year’s Forum of Emerging Leaders in Asian Journalism set for July 11 and 12 at Ateneo’s Loyola Campus.
The annual forum, started in 2006, gathers Asian journalists, mostly fellows and graduates of the Ateneo’s M. A. Journalism program. It is convened jointly by ACFJ and the Media Programme Asia of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
World’s best news photos to be exhibited in Manila 
The best news photos taken last year by photojournalists from all over the world will be on exhibit in Manila for three weeks in August.
Winning works from the 2008 World Press Photo competition, touted as the
world’s largest and most prestigious annual contest in press photography, will be on display Aug. 1 to 7 at the Podium in Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Aug. 8 to 13 at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City, and Aug. 14 to 22 at The Block at the SM North EDSA.
Shots taken during last year's exhibit
2 Photojourn alumni recognized by Sopa Two graduates of the ACFJ Diploma in Photojournalism program were among the photojournalists cited by the Society of Publishers in Asia (Sopa) in its 2008 Awards for Editorial Excellence. The awards were given during a gala dinner held June 4 in Hong Kong.
The graduates, Filipino photojournalists Raffy Lerma and Rem Zamora, took two of the four pictures given the honorable mention in the award category Excellence in News Photography. The pictures were published in the
Philippine Daily Inquirer, where Lerma and Zamora are staff photographers.
Photojourn alumna mounts first exhibit 
Ma. Cristina Luisa Sevilla, Filipino freelance photographer who recently finished the Diploma in Photojournalism is mounting her maiden exhibit at the Quezon City Hall’s Legislative Building starting May 28.
Dubbed “Batang Ina” (Filipino for child-mother, or young mother), the show features Sevilla’s photo documentaries on teenage mothers. Its opening coincided with the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, and is to run for a month.
>> View Batang Ina slide show
here
One of Sevilla's works on exhibit
PROGRAM UPDATESM.A. Journ records most number of new students this school year Twenty Asian journalists and media professionals compose this school year’s batch of Master of Arts in Journalism enrollees – the biggest ever since the course was introduced by the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University (ACFJ) in 2003.
Four more ACFJ fellows for MA Journ The ACFJ announced recently the addition of four more names to the latest list of journalists receiving two-year fellowship grants to pursue the Master of Arts in Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University starting school year 2008-09.
Diploma in Photojourn has 9 new grads Nine Filipino photojournalists wrapped up their course works and successfully presented their portfolios May 10, earning them the Diploma in Photojournalism.
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REPORTING ON ICT, ACFJ's newest publication, now available.
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Asian CurrentsBlood on Their HandsDevelopment Journalism
Photos courtesy of Jimmy Domingo, ACFJ Special Coordinator for Diploma in Photojournalism 
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