In 2019, Teodoro was awarded the Titus Brandsma Freedom of the Press Award. “Dominant media outfits have failed to explain or even refused to expose the roots of poverty, corruption, political dynasties.” “Many journalists in the dominant media depoliticize the issues, contributing to the depoliticization of the audience,” Bulatlat quoted Teodoro as saying. Teodoro was elected the chairperson of Altermidya, with Rhea Padilla as the national coordinator.Īccording to a Bulatlat report, Teodoro said that the group’s formation would boost the role of alternative media in filling in gaps and telling stories that mainstream media sometimes avoids, given corporate interests. Members included media outfits from all island groups in the country, and was inclusive to all forms of media: print, broadcast, and online. In October 2014, in the UP CMC’s first National Conference of Alternative Media, Altermidya was formed.Īltermidya or People’s Alternative Media Network, claimed to be the first national network of alternative media practitioners in the Philippines. Jumping from UP, Teodoro took his press freedom advocacy to organize independent media groups often outshone by mainstream media outlets. “As educator, editor, and journalist, Dean Teodoro was pivotal in fostering academic excellence in our discipline, upholding integrity in the practice of media, and defending our freedoms of the press, speech, and assembly,” said the UP CMC. The media center’s cornerstone was laid during his deanship. Teodoro conceptualized and raised the initial funds for the construction of the UP CMC Media Center. UP said Teodoro held a number of professorial chairs before he retired as a full professor of journalism. Under his deanship, the UP CMC saw two of its departments – the journalism department and the communication research department – named as Centers of Excellence by the Commission on Higher Education. He became a three-time chair of the UP CMC journalism department, and then dean of the college from 1994 to 2000. He went on to teach journalism in the UP CMC, including media law and ethics, a graduate course on the political economy of mass media, and contemporary issues in communication. Teodoro was involved in journalism from his college days, in 1961 becoming editor in chief of the Philippine Collegian, the official student publication of the University of the Philippines in Diliman.Īccording to the Collegian, Teodoro, together with editorial staff, protested the intervention of then-Collegian faculty advisor Francisco Arcellana in the publication’s weekly newspaper. “He is credited with advancing the ideals of pro-people journalism both as a respected member of the academe and through the alternative media that he helped organize in the Philippines,” said Altermidya.Īltermidya pointed to books that showcased his journalism tenets, such as Divide By Two and In Medias Res: Essays on the Philippine Press and Media.
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