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By JAKE SORIANO [metaslider id=48020] Photos by LALA ORDENES At first glance, the Quezon City Regional Trial Court looks more like a church than a court. An assortment of statues […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.