Veteran journalists have these to say to younger news practitioners:
This was stressed by veteran journalists in a McLuhan Panel Forum on “Philippine Journalism in the New Normal: Challenges and Opportunities” on May 8 on the last of the two-day 2021 Philippine Journalism Research Conference or PJRC.
Esguerra, who also teaches at the University of Sto. Tomas , lamented that journalists have been labelled as prostitutes and low lifes while news organizations are accused of spreading “fake news.” “The lack of transparency and conflicting information should have brought out the best in journalists working in the time of the pandemic,” he said.
The annual PJRC, organized by the Department of Journalism of the College of Mass Communication at the University of the Philippines , aims to foster research in journalism studies, and the development of investigative journalism among mass communication students.