EIGHT DISTINGUISHED alumni of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UPCMC), including BusinessWorld and InterAksyon.com editor-in-chief Roby Alampay, will be honored at the 1st Glory Awards ceremony to be held on Nov. 11 at the UP Bahay ng Alumni, Diliman, Quezon City.

The University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication Alumni Association (UPCMCAA) announced that the awardees were chosen for their outstanding work and influence in their chosen disciplines and advocacies.

The Glory Awards honors the legacy of UP Masscom’s first dean, Gloria D. Feliciano.

Mr. Alampay, a multitasking newsroom executive across traditional and new media platforms, was chosen for the category of print and online journalism. He is editor-in-chief of BusinessWorld and InterAksyon.com, while concurrently vice-president and news anchor at TV5 and sister network Bloomberg Philippines. His bylined op-ed pieces on topics such as democracy, human rights, and press freedom have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and United Kingdom-based The Guardian.

The other awardees are practitioner Joy Buensalido for her field of public relations; McCann Worldgroup Philippines Chairman and CEO Raul Castro for marketing communications; filmmaker Sari Dalena for cinema; critic and scholar Joel David for cinema, particularly film research and criticism; writer-director Lauren Dyogi for television arts; news executive Marissa Flores for broadcast journalism; and Lan Mercado for social advocacy.

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