GMA News Online editor-in-chief Jaemark Tordecilla has been chosen by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism as one in every of 24 world journalists for a yr of research at Harvard University.
Tordecilla, a Senior Assistant Vice President at GMA Network, might be a part of the Nieman Class of 2024 which is able to arrive on campus this fall and consists of investigative reporters, podcasters, documentary filmmakers, an open-source researcher, writers, video and photojournalists, a movie critic, a tv news producer, a media analyst and senior editors and newsroom leaders who direct revolutionary journalism ventures.
He will research viewers belief in media organizations and what newsrooms can do to strengthen that belief and construct engagement.
Tordecilla, a profession journalist and editor, was additionally one of many Philippines’ Ten Outstanding Young Men in 2021.
His management of GMA News and Public Affairs digital media led to recognition by prestigious establishments such because the WAN-IFRA Digital Media Worldwide and Digital Media Asia Awards, the Society of Publishers in Asia Awards for Editorial Excellence, and the New York Festivals.
According to Nieman, the fellows in two semesters at Harvard will study the rising threats to democracy and the free press; using AI in reporting; improvements in storytelling; political polarization; trauma; local weather destabilization; scientific advances in well being care; reporting underneath repressive regimes; options journalism; media belief; and journalism collaboration.
“These inspiring journalists are working to elevate and redefine our industry at a critical moment,” mentioned Ann Marie Lipinski, curator of the Nieman Foundation.
“The vast possibilities offered by changing modes of creation and communication invite new approaches to our work, and the severe threats against journalism around the globe demand them. I’m excited to support the research of these fellows as they work to strengthen journalism and contribute to the Harvard community in important ways,” she added.
The different fellows within the Class of 2024 are as follows:
- James Barragan, politics reporter for the Texas Tribune;
- Julia Barton, vice chairman and govt editor at Pushkin Industries in New York;
- Julian Benbow, a sports activities reporter at The Boston Globe;
- Elsie Chen, a Chinese reporter primarily based in Shenzhen, China, who has labored as a reporter and researcher for The New York Times in Beijing and Seoul;
- Ben Curtis, a photojournalist and East Africa bureau chief for The Associated Press in Kenya;
- Lebo Diseko, a South African correspondent for the BBC World Service primarily based in London;
- Sonya Groysman, a Russian reporter for TV Rain, documentary director and podcaster working in exile;
- Cristela Geurra, senior arts and tradition reporter at WBUR in Boston;
- Denise Hruby, an Austrian setting reporter who writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post and National Geographic;
- Beandra July, an impartial arts journalist and movie critic primarily based in Los Angeles;
- Jikyung Kim, deputy editor, anchor and author on the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) in South Korea;
- Javier Lafuente, deputy managing editor of the American version of the Spanish newspaper El País;
- Yana Lyushnevskaya, a senior journalist with BBC Monitoring’s workforce in Kyiv;
- Ilya Marritz, a New York-based reporter who covers threats to democracy for ProfessionalPublica and Trump authorized issues for NPR;
- Andrea Patiño Contreras, a video journalist and editor from Colombia who relies in Boston;
- Rachel Pulfer, govt director of Journalists for Human Rights in Toronto;
- Andrew Ryan, an investigative reporter for The Boston Globe;
- Denise Schrier Cetta, a producer and author for “60 Minutes” at CBS News;
- Surabhi Tandon, an Indian reporter and filmmaker;
- Sarah Varney, a senior correspondent for KFF Health News primarily based in Massachusetts;
- Johanna Wild, a German open-source researcher and founding father of the investigative tech workforce at Bellingcat in Amsterdam; and
- Annie Jieping Zhang, founder and CEO of Matters Lab in Taiwan.
Since 1938, the Nieman Foundation has chosen greater than 1,700 journalists from 100 international locations for fellowships at Harvard.
In addition to taking courses on the college, fellows take part in a strong Nieman program of seminars, workshops, coaching classes, and collaborations with Harvard students, college students and main innovators within the Cambridge space. —NB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
