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GMA’s Jose Mari Abacan is Juror in International Emmys Tessie Tomas Signs with GMA Network GMA Supports Araw ng Pagbasa
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GMA Network Scores Top Ratings in Urban Luzon and Mega Manila in November
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GMA’s Felipe L. Gozon Receives Award from International Honor Society GMA Network Chairman and CEO Atty. Felipe L. Gozon was conferred the Distinguished Achievement Award by the International Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi University of the Philippines Chapter (045) for being “a topnotch lawyer and media executive” during the latter’s 80th Anniversary. Gozon was recognized for “steering GMA Network to a leading force for national transformation” as well as “for his leadership in business as evidenced by numerous recognitions, as [a] CEO and Business Icon.”
Photo shows Atty. Gozon and Dr. Aura C. Matias, President of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi UP Chapter 045 during the awarding ceremony at the Bahay ng Alumni in UP Diliman, Quezon City.
Lilybeth G. Rasonable
GMA Senior Vice President for Entertainment Lilybeth G. Rasonable is now GMA Network’s Senior Vice President for Entertainment TV Group (ETV). Rasonable has been with the Company since 1998 and has served as Program Manager, Assistant Vice President, Vice President for Drama and OIC for GMA ETV. She was a key figure in the creation of several of the Network’s phenomenal hits such as Mulawin, Encantadia, Darna, Majika, Captain Barbell, Marimar, Dyesebel, Amaya, Munting Heredera and My Husband’s Lover. Rasonable holds a Bachelor in Broadcast Communication degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman. GMA KAPUSO MAGAZINE |DECEMBER 2013 ISSUE
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GMA’s Jose Mari Abacan is Juror in International Emmys GMA Network’s Vice President for Program Management Jose Mari R. Abacan was among the esteemed panel of jurors in the 41st International Emmy Awards held on November 25 in New York City. Abacan served as a juror for the final round of judging in the comedy category where he evaluated entries from South Africa, United Kingdom, France and Brazil.
JOSE MARI ABACAN Vice President for Program Management
Considered as the Oscars of the TV industry, the International Emmy Awards is an annual event organized by The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Abacan was also a juror in the final round of judging in the comedy category in 2011 and in the TV Movie/Mini Series category in 2007 and 2010.
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Araw ng Pagbasa The Kapuso Network celebrated Araw ng Pagbasa on 27 Nov 2013 with Tropang Pochi's Sabrina Man leading a storytelling session at the Balara Elementary School in Quezon City. She read the "Grandpa Tree" to around 100 graders of the school. Araw ng Pagbasa was signed into law by President Benigno S. Aquino to help motivate the young people to read and generate a sense of hope among the youth.
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Tessie Tomas Signs with GMA Network Award-winning actress Tessie Tomas is now a Kapuso as she inked an exclusive contract with GMA Network recently. Photo shows (L-R): ETV’s Senior Vice President Lilybeth G. Rasonable, Tessie Tomas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Atty. Felipe L. Gozon and Tessie’s Manager, Ricky Gallardo.
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GMA Network Scores Top Ratings in Urban Luzon and Mega Manila in November Pacquiao-Rios bout leads in NUTAM GMA Network continued to lead the viewer-rich areas of Urban Luzon and Mega Manila in TV ratings in November based on data from Nielsen TV Audience Measurement.
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Urban Luzon and Mega Manila comprise 77 and 59 percent, respectively, of the total urban television households in the country. For the period November 1 to 30 (November 24 to 30 based on overnight data), GMA led other networks in Urban Luzon with a 35.8 percent total day audience share, ahead of ABS-CBN’s 32.5 percent by 3.3 points, and of TV5’s 11.1 percent by 24.7 points. The Kapuso Network also maintained its strong performance and led across all day parts in Mega Manila, where it posted a 36.8 percent total day audience share average, up 6.7 points from ABS-CBN’s 30.1 percent and up 24.8 points from TV5’s 12 percent. The Pacquiao-Rios bout aired on GMA dubbed, “Pacquiao vs. Rios Fight as One” led all programs (including specials) in
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GMA outnumbered ABS-CBN’s programs in the list of top shows in the area with 18 out of 30.
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Kapuso Wins Big at Anak TV Awards THE COUNTRY’S TOP FAVORITE TV PROGRAMS
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2013 International Business and Academe Conference (IBAC) Jessica Soho was named Outstanding Broadcaster of the Year while Manny Pacquiao and Dingdong Dantes received the Outstanding Youth Ambassador Award in the 2013 International Business and Academe Conference’s Service Excellence and Partners Awards held recently. Jiggy Manicad and Love Añover were both recognized as Service Excellence Awardees for Media for their exemplary reportage at the height of Typhoon Yolanda.
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PMAP Makatao Awards Jessica Soho won the Best TV Public Affairs Host Award while Mike Enriquez was named Best TV Male News Caster at the 3rd People Management Association of the Philippines Makatao Awards for Media Excellence.
(L-R) PMAP PR & Publicity Chair Ellen Fullido, Vice President Roberto Policarpio, Best TV Male Newscaster Mike Enriquez, PMAP President Evelyn Grace Sorongon and PR & Publicity Director Jesse Rebustillo
FAPSA Tri-Media Awards At the FAPSA Partners in Education from the Tri-Media Ceremony, GMA Network won major recognition as the Perfect Media Advocate while Soho was given the Excellence in Broadcast Journalism as Best TV News Anchor for her newscast State of the Nation with Jessica Soho. GMA senior correspondents Sherrie Ann Torres and JP Soriano received the Excellence in TV News Reporting. GMA News TV’s drama series Titser won the Excellence in Television Art Mini-Series Program while two of its stars, Lovi Poe and Agot Isidro, were given the Lead Artists Special Recognition. I Juander, which also airs on GMA News TV, was awarded the Excellence in Television Art Educational Program award while its hosts Susan Enriquez and Cesar Apolinario were given Program Hosts Special Recognition. The Breakthrough Talk Show Host Award, meanwhile, was given to today’s hottest child star host Ryzza Mae Dizon for her daily morning show The Ryzza Mae Show. The Federation of Associations of Private Schools and Administrators (FAPSA) is the premier umbrella organization of private schools in the country and it is committed to be an independent avenue in addressing the concerns in operation of private schools.
(STANDING L-R): GMA News reporter JP Soriano, I Juander Exec Producer Stephen Patricio, GMA News reporter and I Juander host Cesar Apolinario, Titser Executive Producer Alemberg Ang together with (seated L-R) GMA News reporter Sherrie Ann Torres, Titser lead star Lovi Poe, GMA News reporter and I-Juander host Susan Enriquez, and GMA Network’s AVP for News Production John Oliver Manalastas.
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GNTV’s Reel Time documentary “Silang Wala sa Mapa” and GMA News Online took home the prize in the TV category.
(L-R) PMAP PR & Publicity Chair Ellen Fullido, Vice President Roberto Policarpio, GMA VP for HRD Gerrome Apolona, PMAP President Evelyn Grace Sorongon and PR & Publicity Director Jesse Rebustillo.
3rd OFW Gawad Parangal Jessica Soho, Kara David, Jay Taruc, Mel Tiangco and GMA News Online were recognized at the 3rd OFW Gawad Parangal for giving importance to the welfare of OFWs.
More than 100 media stories, composed of online and print articles, radio and television works were submitted to the Department of Health’s media recognition program dubbed Parangal sa mga Kwentong Kalusugan Pangkalahatan (Regcognizing Stories on Universal Health Care).
(L-R): GMA's Investigative Documentaries Team headed by host Malou Mangahas, GMA News Online reporters Claire Delfin and Patricia Chiu and Reel Time's team headed by exec. producer Jayson Santos
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Howie Severino is celebrating his 25th year as a journalist. In his career, he has run the gamut from print to broadcast and now, online journalism. Kapuso Magazine chats with the multi-awarded GMA News and Public Affairs pillar. Kapuso Magazine (KM): What inspired you to become a journalist? Howie Severino (HS): My father is an accomplished writer and diplomat, and both he and my mother, a teacher, encouraged me to read and write for pleasure and achievement. My parents allowed me to subscribe to news magazines even in grade school. Plus, as a kid, I wasn’t great in math :-). There was a whole slew of occupations that were a dead end for me. KM: What have been your biggest challenges as a journalist? HS: Learning to write, interview, voice and (more recently) anchor in Filipino, since I had forgotten how to speak it after spending much of my childhood in the United States. Using Filipino in my profession has made me feel whole. KM: Were there any other professions that you considered pursuing? HS: Law and diplomacy. KM: What made you go into documentary filmmaking? HS: I was a newspaper reporter in my late 20s when a filmmaker friend asked me to write a script for a documentary he was directing. That opened my eyes to a powerful way of telling a story. KM: How do you go about choosing a documentary subject? HS: I gravitate towards what I find interesting, but it also must also be significant to society. It needs to be a fresh angle even on an old topic. It has to be visual, and it has to be do-able, meaning it needs to be within budget and I won’t be killed doing it.
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KM: Do you have any personal advocacy/ies? What are they? HS: Cycling and sustainable transport. But I advocate through example. KM: Describe yourself off-cam. HS: I love spending time with my family. I love the outdoors, kayaking and cycling. I enjoy looking at art. KM: How did you transition from broadcast journalism to multimedia? HS: I received a surprise opportunity to head multimedia journalism at GMA. I was already an avid online reader and blogger, but I had to cram for my role, which was not just content producer but strategist and manager of a wide assortment of talented people. KM: What are the advantages and disadvantages of online journalism? HS: Main advantage: Anything you do in traditional media you can do online, while there is much you can do online that you can’t do in traditional media. Main disadvantage: Online journalism never stops, it’s 24/7. Errors are magnified online. KM: As head of GMA’s Multimedia Journalism Department, what is your management style? HS: Consultative, mentoring. I may talk too much, but I also try to lead by example. I’m hands-on: I edit and write copy, headlines and captions; do interviews; follow leads and track down stories; take photos. I tweet the news and interact about it on FB. I like to experiment. I love the journalism part of the job, the newsroom vibe when there’s a big story. Trying to make copy and headlines engaging and perfect is an obsessive craft. I’m into that. KM: What is the impact of social media on journalism? HS: Social media has a huge multiplier effect on journalism -- nearly everyone becomes an accessible potential source of information, as well as means of distribution. Feedback is instant and keeps us on our toes. At the same time, the avalanche of information makes the role of journalists as verifiers and contextualizers even more important. Rather than becoming obsolete, we are as essential as ever.
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Howie Severino started as a newspaper reporter and magazine writer in 1988, became a co-founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, established himself as a leading documentary filmmaker, and in 2009 was named Editor in Chief of GMA News Online, GMA Network’s news website. In TV, he was on The Probe Team for four years before joining I-Witness, now one of the longest running public affairs programs in the Philippines. Among his best-known documentaries are his series on Jose Rizal -- as an overseas Pinoy in Europe, as the man smirking in a famous photograph, and as the descendant of an illegitimate family from Biñan. He is also credited with documentaries on Iraq on the eve of the US invasion and the MV Karagatan, the secret sunken ship of the NPA. His documentary about language teaching in schools, Don’t English Me, has been widely shown in classrooms. At the PCIJ, he set up the Center’s Environment Desk, built credentials as a leading environmental journalist, and worked closely with Ramon Magsaysay awardee Sheila Coronel. He still produces environmental documentaries for I-Witness and often appears on television riding his mountain bike. Online, he was the first blogger on GMA’s web platforms. As editor of GMA News Online since 2009, he and his team have pioneered the use of Google maps for disaster coverage, crowd-sourcing for news, and Twitter for breaking news in the Philippines. He graduated from Tufts University in Massachusetts with a History degree, magna cum laude, and received his Master’s degree from Sussex University in England in Environment, Development, and Policy. As a college student in Boston in the early1980s, he got to know then exile Ninoy Aquino. After Aquino’s assassination in 1983, Severino returned home to teach at his alma mater Ateneo High School, and join the anti-Marcos movement. He was arrested on the same day as Lino Brocka and Behn Cervantes, and detained for eight days in Fort Bonifacio, then a dreaded army camp and not yet a high-end real estate development. In a 2009 trust survey conducted by Reader’s Digest magazine, Howie was sixth on a list of most trusted Filipinos. Howie is one of the Philippines’ most awarded journalists.
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GMA Pays it Forward with Christmas Short Films
Since 2005, GMA’s collection of Christmas short films has earned the nod of televiewers and received awards from local and international bodies. Now on its 8th year, GMA Network through its sales and marketing arm, GMA Marketing and Productions, Inc. (GMPI), makes its short films even more meaningful as it gives back to those in most need.
Strengthening its corporate social responsibility, GMPI partnered with GMA Kapuso Foundation, wherein sponsors of the short films
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In Cebuana Lhuillier’s “Iskolar,” a young man waiting in line reflects on his family’s ups and downs and their determination to overcome life’s obstacles. Benjamin Alves and Vincent Magbanua show how one can still give back despite life’s unexpected setbacks.
Jaclyn Jose stars in Smart HelLow’s “From Dubai with Love” – a comedy about a family who receives a Balikbayan box from Dubai for Christmas.
donated to the foundation’s immediate relief operations for the Yolanda typhoon victims. Sponsors for 2013 GMA Christmas Short Films are Cebuana Lhuillier, Smart HelLow, So Lucky Soda Crackers and KFC. Select Kapuso artists, meanwhile, breathe life into some of the GMA’s 2013 Christmas important characters in each story. short films are seen on GMA-7 and GMA With a growing list of awards to its name, GMPI furthers its News TV. The films are commitment of creating relevant, inspiring and valuable also available online content, while spreading the true essence of the at www.gmanetwork. Holiday Season. com/gmashortfilms #GMASHORTFILMS.
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In So Lucky Soda Crackers’ “Kahati ng Kahapon”, Niño, the same young boy from the multi-awarded short film “Hating Kapatid”, is reminded of his humble beginnings when he meets a young street scavenger. Niño (Jak Roberto), pays forward the same generosity he received years ago from Nanay Perla (Ms. Perla Bautista).
Inspired by the true story of a little girl, KFC’s “Munting Sakripisyo” featuring Barbara Miguel, Milcah Nacion and Kris Bernal, touches viewers’ hearts as they portray a day in the life of 9-year old Norhana whose unusual routine turns a simple story into an extraordinary one.
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GMA Kapuso Foundation to build houses and classrooms in Tacloban When typhoon Yolanda destroyed Leyte and Samar in November, donations both in cash and in kind, poured into GMA Kapuso Foundation (GMAKF) to help those who lost their homes. With this outpouring of donations, GMAKF is now set to build two (2) Kapuso Villages, comprised by 400 typhoon-resilient houses and 20 classrooms in Tacloban City. The Kapuso Village in Tacloban is the 3rd and biggest housing project of GMAKF. It is also the first housing project for the victims of Yolanda in the said area.
“Talagang may puso ang GMA Kapuso Foundation. Sila ang unang una, ang GMA,” Tacloban City Housing Department Consultant Leonard Tedence Jopson said. “The Kapuso Village in Tacloban is the first housing project for the victims of Yolanda. It is a symbol of hope and recovery for our kababayans in Leyte,” said GMAKF EVP and COO Mel Tiangco. In 2007 GMAKF turned over 100 houses and a new school to residents of Lilo-an Leyte who were displaced by the landslide in 2006. In 2012, 180 houses, 10 classrooms and water facilities were presented to the people of Brgy. Mandulog who were victims of Tyhoon Sendong.
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