TF211 SPONSORS SEMINAR-WORKSHOP ON SECURITY FOR NORTHERN MINDANAO MEDIA
 

Task Force 211 recently sponsored a seminar-workshop on personal security for members of the tri-media in Northern Mindanao. The event was held at the VIP Hotel in Cagayan de Oro City on June 19, 2009. Justice Undersecretary Ricardo Blancaflor, TF 211 Chairman, welcomed the guests and participants to the seminar-workshop. Resource persons for the seminar on media ethics and personal security were Atty. Reggie Jularbal, general counsel of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkasters ng Pilipinas or KBP and Col. Andy Gauran, an expert of VIP security.

Also present at the event were KBP President Herman Basbano, FFFJ Chairman Jose Pavia, and NUJP Vice-Chairperson Nonoy Espina. More or less a hundred of tri-media practitioners in and around Cagayan de Oro City participated in the said event. The seminar was capped by a workshop where participants decided and designed a media action center in CDO to serve as a quick-response and monitoring center. The participants also pledged on the following as their contribution to the call to stop media killings in the country.

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