FCS & HWPL Journalism Workshop (November 11, 2022)

“We are one in peace and unity through good and RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM.”
Speaker 1: Dr. Carl Balita
Speaker 2: Mr. Brayan Ian L. Montances
Speaker 3: Ms. Rica Feliciano
Inspirational Speech: Mariz Umali
Chief Manager HWPL (Europe & Asia): Alice Kim

“The essence of journalism is making sense in the midst of chaos.” (Mariz Umali)

“The media is a window to the world.”

“If we practice peace in journalism, we can move the hearts of the citizens.” (Alice Kim)

The Strongest Foundation for Achieving Peace: Institutionalization of HWPL Peace Education in the
Philippines

Order No. 1 Series of 2019

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“Peace is the gun because it gives us protection.”

Julius D. Depaor
-School Head
-Bethany Christian Academy of Tagaytay

Dr. Carl E. Balita

-Host, Broadcaster, Author and Columnist, Business Professor, and Motivational Speaker, Carl E. Balita
Review Center, Radyo Negosyo
College: University of Santo Thomas (UST)
Basic Education: Divine World College & Puerto Galera Elementary School
Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife, Registered Professional Teacher
Master of Arts in Nursing (Education and Administration)
Certificate in Entrepreneurship, Doctor of Humanities, Doctor of Education International Management
Executive, Certified Franchise Executive (RN, RM, RPT, MAN, DrHum, EdD)

“For him, education is number 1.”

Appreciative Journalism
Faith, Hope and Love
- 3 Things That Last Forever
- Ingredients of Peace

Life-long learning
Passion & Mission: What I Love
Passion & Profession: What I am Good at
Profession & Vocation: What I am Paid for
Mission & Vocation: What the World Needs
Altogether: Purpose
Of media, wise and fool – Business Mirror

“If you want to change something, you should start from yourself.”
“You just have to become the best of yourself.”
“The stupid is more confident.”
“For you to call yourself a journalist, you should know more, more than what you know right now.”
“Social media is making a lot of people stupid.”
“Journalism is about truth.”
Wiki- What I Know Is
“Crying is the cleansing of the soul.”
“The proof of learning is change.”
“Wag kang mahiya pag nag sasalita. Mahiya ka kung may ginagawa kang masama.”
“It’s not about your school. It’s about you.”
“In the world of intelligent people, your opinion is yours, not mine.”

Arriane Nolasco
Peace Coordinator
HWPL Philippines

Ryan Lao
Host, El Pueblo Publico
DWIZ 882AM

Why We Do
What We Do?

“Every gising is a blessing.”

SA ULO NG MGA NAGBABAGANG BALITA.

WALANG KINIKILINGAN, WALANG PRINOPROTEKTAHAN.

Basic Principle of Journalism (Broadcasting)

Truthfulness
Accuracy
Objectively
Impartiality
Fairness
Public Accountability

“Honesty is such a lonely word.”

“Truth shall be there at all times.”
WAG MAHIHIYANG MAG TANONG.
Inquire
Probe
Ask Question
Dig for the Story

“Our work as a journalist can affect or impact lives of other people.”

“Whoever controls the media controls the mind.” (Jim Morison)

Paradigm- world perspective

Shaping Opinions
Forming Decision
Building-Destroying the Nation

PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW

What goes behind every story.

Our epoch and time

TRUTH and ACCURACY compromised.
Marami ngayon ang mga S-M-P

“Envelopment journalism instead of Investigatory journalism.”

The new era in information gathering and dissemination was born.

MARITES CULTURE
CANCEL CULTURE

Purveyors of fake news live in dark allies.

Stay out of dark allies.

The decline trust in media suggest decline of truth.

Fake NEWS grows EXPONENTIALLY. Because we SHARE it.

It’s on us.

If you hate it, IGNORE it.

If it’s positive, ENGAGE it.
If you don’t know, RESEARCH it.

Ignore the fake news messages and never engage.

“The purpose of the microphone is to amplify, just like news.”

SA ISANG LIPUNANG KALAT-KALAT, WATAK-WATAK AT SABOG-SABOG.

“We are not one. Because we are in a broken world, broken country, broken community, broken family
and a broken individual.”

“Nasa ating mga kamay ang katotohanan gusto nating tangkilikin.”

What shall be unbundled, disarticulated, and dispersed?

Importation Gathering
Responsible Distribution
Proactive Consumption

Journalism- is also a STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION it is INTERGRATING THE INFORMATION

“WHAT you SAY is JUST as IMPORTANT HOW you SAY it.”

ITAWID ANG MENSAHE

Sa gitna ng napakaraming boses, ingay at gulo.
Communicate the BEST MESSAGE, through the RIGHT channels.

DO NOT JUST DELIVER THE NEWS.

PROTECT AND RESPECT

The rights of the people IN every news.

NO PERSON shall be deprived of life. Liberty, or property WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW, nor shall
anyone be deprived of the equal protection of the laws.

Section 1 Article 3
1987 Constitution

“Clear and present danger.”

ISANG PANININDIGAN.
Commitment
Devotion
Fidelity

“Dapat pinaninindigan kung ano ang totoo.”

Journalism can never be silent.

Journalism must speak and speak immediately.

COMMUNICATION is NOT MANIPULATION

IT MUST LEAD to INSPIRATION

MORAL OBLIGATION- we nowadays forget about it.

Journalism as an institution has the essential and fundamental purpose to educate and inform.

NOT JUST TO ENTERTAIN BUT TO ELEVAtE THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.

Journalism shall always be:
Devoted to research
Fast-checking
In-depth research

The very journalism that is under ATTACK right now.

How do you fight this non-sense FAKE NEWS?

DISINFORMATION
MISINFORMATION

DON’T BE LAZY

CHECK THE FACTS!

VERIFY THE VERACITY OF THE NEWS

JOURNALISM IS TRUTH TELLING.

Katotohanan.
Truth.
La Verda.

REMEMBER the PURPOSE of JOURNALISM is:

To BEAR WITNESS
To HOLD POWER TO ACCOUNT
To be a CHANNEL

WHO CONTROL THE MEDIA?

YOU CONTROL THE MEDIA.

TALAGA BANG SA ULO NG MGA NAGBABAGANG BALITA BAKIT HINDI SA PUSO?

ALLOW
many voices to be heard, faces to be seen, stories to be shared, lives to be touched and saved.

The duty of journalist is to tell the truth. Journalism means you go back to the actual facts, you look at
the documents, you discover what the record is, and you report it that way.

-Noam Chomsky, professor and author.

Our work will form a part of our life- of who we are.

To do a great work is to love what we do.

To love what we do is to share our being.
THIS IS OUR ECHO.

BE THE VOICE OF OTHERS.

EMPOWER THE FORSAKEN, UPLIFT THE FORGOTTEN AND GIVE JSTICE TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN
BEATEN BY THE MIGHTY AND THE POWERFUL.

The POWER OF JOURNALISM is not that it SPEAKS to THOUSANDS, even MILLIONS.

The POWER OF JOURNALISM Is that it SPEAKS IMMEDIATELY to EACH OF THESE THOUSANDS and
MILLIONS.

The trace of the Divine is acknowledged within the Ethics of “Otherness. (Emmanuel Levinas)

HINDI LANG ANG ULO NG BALITA ANG MAHALAGA, HINDI LANG GALING SA PAG BABALITA ANG
MAHALAGA.

LESSON LEARNED.

DAPAT MAY PUSO ANG BAWAT BALITA.

POWER
take it hold it own it share it
is within all of us.

Rica Feliciano
Communication Head
HWPL Philippines

Peace Journalism
Journalist are the forefront of conflicts. Where there is conflict there is news.

SUMMARY OF TOPICS
MAIN POINTS COVERED
What is Peace?
Defining Peace Journalism
War Journalism
Peace Journalism Elements

Prof. Johan Galtung

Father of Peace Studies

POSITIVE PEACE
Presence of Harmony
Restoration of Relationships
Building Just and Sustainable
Institutions where people’s rights are secured and there exists are shared concept of progress.

NEGATIVE PEACE
Absence of Violence
Fear of Violence
Lack of Harmony

Johan Galtung’s theory of nonviolence and conflict resolution:

a conflict is a clash of incompatible interests amongst the parties that can be transcended in order to
reach a further and deeper agreement.
“Peace therefore exists where people are interacting non-violently and are managing conflict positively-
with respectful attention to the legitimate needs and interest of all concerned.”

What is peace journalism?

Peace Journalism
-proposed by Johan Galtung
-developed from research that indicates that often news about conflict has a value bias toward violence.
- includes practical methods for correcting this bias by producing journalism in both the mainstream and
alternative media.

Defining Peace Journalism

CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND TRANSFORMATION
to update the concepts of balance, fairness and accuracy in reporting

NEW ROAD MAP TRACING CONNECTIONS

between journalist, their resources, the stories, they cover and the consequences of their journalism

BUILDS AN AWARENESS OF NONVIOLENCE AND CREATIVITY

into the practical job of everyday editing and reporting

EDITORS AND REPORTERS MAKE CHOICES…

HOW TO FRAME STORIES
carefully choosing words

CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE CONDUCIVE PEACE

supportive of peace initiatives and peacemakers without compromising the basic principles of good
journalism

GIVES PEACEMAKES A VOICE

while making peace initiatives and non-violent situations more visible and viable

WAR AND VIOLENCE JOURNALISM

us vs. them narratives that demonize them
spreading of propaganda
reporting that is victory-oriented reactive and elite oriented that focuses only on visible effects of
vionlence

VICTIMIZES
devastated
destitute
defenseless

IMPRECISE AND EMOTIVE

tragedy
massacre
systematic

DEMONIZES
vicious
cruel
barbaric

IMPRECISELY LABELS
terrorist
extremist
fanatic
fundamentalist

LEFT WING OF THE GOVERNMENT

-open/want change
-opposition

RIGHT WING OF THE GOVERNMENT

-systematic traditional, true government

SENSATIONAL REPORTING
exacerbating already tense, contentious, difficult situations

PEACE JOURNALISM
proactive
humanizes the other side
gives voice to everyday people
discusses solutions

AVOID:
reporting about conflict as if it is a zero-sum game (one winner, one loser)
reporting only the violent acts and “the horror”
reporting claims as though they are facts

THE PEACE JOURNALISM APPROCH

CAN BE USED TO GUIDE
reporting about any type of conflict (politics, ethnic, resource disputes, civil unrest, religious) and not
just those that involve violence or war.

1. PJ is proactive, examining the causes of conflict, and leading discussions about solutions.
2. PJ looks to unite parties rather than divide them, and eschews oversimplified “us vs. bad guy”
reporting.
3. Peace reporters reject official propaganda, and instead seek facts from all sources.
4. PJ is balanced, covering issues/suffering/peace proposals from all sides of a conflict.
5. PJ gives voice to the voiceless, instead of just reporting for and about elites and those in power.
6. Peace journalists provide depth and context, rather than just superficial and sensational “blow
by blow” accounts of violence and conflict.
7. Peace journalists consider the consequences of their reporting.
8. Peace journalists carefully choose and analyze the words they use, understanding that carelessly
selected words are often inflammatory.
9. Peace journalists thoroughly select the images they use, understanding that they can
misrepresent an event, exacerbate an already dire situation, and re-victimize those who have
suffered.
10. Peace journalists offer counter-narrative that debunk media-created or perpetuated stereotypes,
myths, and misperceptions.