This Fellowship Reminded Me Why I Chose Journalism
by Sanaf Marcelo Editor’s Note: Sanaf is ICSC’s Senior Communications Officer for Media and Events, who also served as project lead for the latest run of the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship which concluded in March 2025. Prior to joining ICSC, Sanaf worked as a journalist and media practitioner with experience spanning radio, mainstream, and alternative media. Leading the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship has not only brought me closer to the work I once did, it has reminded me why I chose journalism in the first place. As someone who spent years chasing stories from the ground, [...]
Media is essential with or without COVID-19
MANILA, 7 May 2020 – Responding to the shutdown of ABS-CBN last Tuesday, Renato Redentor Constantino, executive director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, said: “We have always considered media as part of a category that's been made popular today by the pandemic: media performs essential work. Media is essential with or without our current setting, just as press freedom is fundamental to any society that values democracy. This freedom is as vital to society as oxygen is to a human being, with or without an emergency. “The renewal of the franchise granted to ABS-CBN is not [...]