Cebu Daily News’ Ador Vincent Mayol receives his award from Globe Cebu Media Excellence Award as Cebu’s Reporter of the Year at the Marriot Hotel, Tuesday night.
MANILA, Philippines – Cebu Daily News’ Ador Vincent Mayol was named “Reporter of the Year for Print” at the 2nd Globe Cebu Media Excellence Awards on Tuesday for his special series on persons with disabilities (PWDs).
Mayol bested other journalists after coming up with a three-part series on the challenges faced by PWDs earning a living.
The CDN reporter received his award at the Cebu Marriott Hotel Tuesday, coinciding with the celebration of Cebu Press Freedom Week.
In the series published from June 10 to 12, Mayol interviewed a blind masseur and a machine operator born with no hands and looked into the various laws and Cebu ordinances that protect the welfare of PWDs.
“I realized that if only PWDs would be given a chance, they too could transcend their condition,” he said.
Other winners of the Globe Telecom-sponsored awards were:
— Sun Star Cebu’s Mayette Q. Tabada and Cherry Ann Lim for “Feature Story of the Year” in print for “Breast Wars: Life-saving with breastfeeding;”
— The Freeman’s Michael Acebedo Lopez as “Columnist of the Year” for his piece “My vote is for Nelson;”
— Sun Star Cebu’s Amper Campana as “Photojournalist of the Year” for his photo titled “He’s my Brother;”
— GMA 7’s Alan Domingo as “Reporter of the Year for Television” for “Asinuka” which also won the “Feature Story of the Year for Television” award;
— Radio station dyHP’s Astra Zina Logarta as “Reporter for the Year for Radio;”
— Blogger Bjornson Bernaldes as “Social Media Advocate of the Year” for his web post “Bjorn Cebuano Media;” and
— Nancy Cudis as “Blogger of the Year” for her blog “The Memowriter – Getting to know our National Artists for Literature.”
Cebu Daily News is a multi-awarded English language daily under Inquirer Publications Inc.
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