THE Presidential Communication Operations Office (PCOO) is planning to create a global media affairs division under the agency, which will be tasked to handle foreign journalists’ questions to the executive branch, Communications Secretary Martin M. Andanar said on Monday.
During the Senate budget hearing of the PCOO, Mr. Andanar said the creation of the division was among the reforms they introduced to the agency while they await the executive order reverting the PCOO to the Office of the Press Secretary. He said press attachés will be assigned in different parts of the world, such as China, Japan, France, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore, under the PCOO unit.
“Once we refer to the Office of the Press Secretary, we are assuming that we will also revive the press attache division,” he said.
“We will have one global media affairs under the Office of the Secretary of the PCOO. And the global media affairs head will be the one managing the different issues, the different questions by international reporters from all over the world. We do have media representatives in Philippine Embassies but we don’t have press attachés focused on speaking on behalf of the executive branch,” Mr. Andanar added. — Camille A. Aguinaldo

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