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Studies on pork scam, human rights win journ research awards

Mar 14, 2015 4:21 PM

THREE outstanding journalism research papers undertaken by university students bagged this year’s top awards of the Philippine Journalism Research Conference 2015. The awards, named after the late University of the Philippines-Diliman journalism professor and VERA Files trustee Chit Estella, went to: Southern Luzon State University’s Beejay Alegria Castillo for his research on the pork barrel […]

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UP students win big in Chit Estella journalism awards

Mar 06, 2014 7:59 AM

UNIVERSITY of the Philippines journalism students hauled in the top prizes at the 2014 Philippine Journalism Research Conference (PJRC) at the University of the Philippines on Wednesday. Aiming to highlight commendable researches of journalism students, this year’s PJRC gave the Chit Estella Memorial Awards for Journalism Research to students with the most excellent work. UP […]

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Lolarga and Silverio win 1st Chit Estella awards

Dec 08, 2012 5:43 PM

By EIMOR P. SANTOS IN death, Vera Files trustee and journalism professor Lourdes “Chit” Estella Simbulan continues to champion human rights campaign in the country. The 1st Chit Estella Journalism Awards honored the best journalistic reports on human rights, Dec. 7. This is in line with the celebration of the National Human Rights Consciousness […]

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Cabbie blames 2 buses for Estella’s death

Jun 29, 2012 10:34 AM

By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES, Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV

THE driver of the taxi journalist Chit Estella was riding when she was killed last year blamed two buses that hit his cab along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, one with such impact it spun around.

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The Online Chit Estella Reader

May 10, 2012 1:09 AM

YONIP.COM, “The Philippine Peace and Sovereignty Website,” has created The Online Chit Estella Reader to keep alive the “spirit, memory and legacy” of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan who died in a car accident on May 13, 2011.

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Chit Estella Awards for Journalism launched

Jun 22, 2011 11:45 PM

THE family of the late VERA Files trustee and journalism professor Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan and VERA Files launched Tuesday the Chit Estella Awards for Journalism.

The launching was timed with the commemoration of the 40th day of her death and her interment at the San Agustin Church columbarium.

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Living and Loving Chit Estella

Jun 21, 2011 11:17 PM

By ROLAND SIMBULAN
YOU were snatched from us “as swift as the wind” as you were on your way to meet your high school batchmates that fateful evening of May 13, 2011. Your life and character, as eulogized by so many, personified you as “gentle as a forest, fierce as fire, firm as a mountain,” to borrow from Sun Tzu.

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Other bus in Chit Estella’s death known

May 21, 2011 1:22 AM

By MARC CAYABYAB and GIAN GERONIMO
(UPDATED) The lawyer of the Universal Guiding Star (UGS) Bus Line has identified the bus that first hit the taxi ridden by journalism professor and veteran journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan.

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Celebrating Chit’s life

May 20, 2011 11:37 AM

A DAYafter she was cremated, the ashes of veteran journalist and VERA Files trustee Chit Estella were brought to the College of Mass Communication in UP Diliman, where she served as a full-time professor since 2005.

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Former students honor Chit Estella

May 17, 2011 11:22 PM

May 16th, Arlington Funeral Homes, Quezon City

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