ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 22, 2012) – Dozens of students and journalists attended a forum Thursday on “Media Ethics and Media’s Role in the Transformation of Society” in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines.
The event was organized by the local chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines under Frencie Carreon and the Ateneo de Zamboanga University. Mary Jean Andrada, of the Ateneo Mass Communication Department, coordinated and moderated the forum.
Good governance champion and Jesuit priest Albert Alejo was invited to speak during the forum attended by mass communication and journalism students from Ateneo de Zamboanga and Western Mindanao State University.
Fr. Alejo, author of the book “Ehemplo: Spirituality of Shared Integrity in Philippine Church and Society,” urged students and journalists to write in-depth analysis and articles about Mindanao and its culture, and important events that would have impact an impact to the readers in general.
Carreon, in appreciation to the priest’s dedication and advocacy, handed him a plaque.
Ehemplo is also call of people dedicated to live a life of honor, integrity and good examples. Ehemplo is based on espousing “Ehem” – the urgent call for cultural reform against corruption in the Philippines.
Ehem aims at bringing people to a renewed sensitivity to the evil of corruption and its prevalence in ordinary life. It seeks ultimately to make them more intensely aware of their own vulnerability to corruption, their own un-critiqued, often unwitting practice of corruption in daily life.
Ehem hopes to bring people, in the end, to a commitment to live the way of Ehemplo – critical of corruption, intent on integrity, according to its organizers. (Mindanao Examiner)
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