Maria Ressa’s Nobel Peace Prize Reporting Vs Frank A Hilario’s Peasant Journalism


For the first time in her history, the Philippines wins a Nobel Peace Prize!

ANN says it was announced today, Friday, 08 October 2021 in the news “Nobel Peace Prize: Journalists Maria Ressa And Dmitry Muratov Share Award[1]” (Author Not Named, BBC.com; Maria Ressa image[2] from Pep.ph). She is Filipina; he is Russian. “For their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”

The nature of the common award-winning journalism of the Filipina and the Russian is that of print media. This is the journalism that The Soyang Group says began simply[3]: Ts’ai Lun, a Chinese official, invented paper in AD 105, and 40 years later, Pi Sheng invented the first movable type. In 1476, Johannes Gutenburg invented printing, which in effect invented journalism. 

In “Journalism In The Digital Age[4]” (2010), Danny Crichton, Ben Christel, Aaditya Shidham, Alex Valderrama & Jeremy Karmel of Stanford Computer Science ask a paradigm-shifting question: “How has journalism changed?” Their answer:

The two largest changes in modern journalism strike at the heart of traditional notions surrounding journalists and news companies.

Firstly, the rise of the blogger and user-based journalism has become immensely popular among both new and old media companies, a change that has drastically altered the definition of a journalist. (underlining mine)

Yes! Today, even Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalists must recognize that journalism has changed – blogging has reinvented journalism, quantity-wise, quality-wise!

Main image above shows my essay “Vibrant Communication For Development Is What Is Lacking In PH Govt Departments” dated 28 August 2021 in my blog Communication for Development. One of my early blogs, The BlogFather,was “Dedicated to the art & heart of blogging” (April 2007). That shows that 14 years ago, I was already furiously blogging. Starting 2000, I have blogged some 5,000 essays of a minimum 1,000 words each!

Continuing my quote from Danny Crichton & others above:

Secondly, the linked nature of the Internet has given rise to content aggregators like Google News or The Huffington Post that no longer rely on individual journalists to provide news, but instead depend on their ability to gather and collect information into a single location where users can access it. Together they are altering society’s traditional ideas regarding journalists and news.

Since January 2020, I have been blogging every single day, even at 81 years of age, practicing my own theory of communication for development (ComDev) I originated in December 1980. I blog in agriculture and related sciences, digitally available knowledge served byte-size, aimed mostly at public officials, private leaders & businessmen, and literate farmers.

I am proud today blogging has in fact & effect shifted freedom of personal communication to freedom of social communication for the development of villages.

I can imagine being a Nobel Peace Prize winner in print journalism is an indescribably ecstatic feeling; nonetheless, I know ComDev is more challenging and everlastingly gratifying.

Today, I am inviting Maria Ressa & her Rappler print journalists to the astonishments of digital journalism!@517


[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58841973

[2]https://www.pep.ph/news/local/maria-ressa-wins-nobel-peace-prize-a712-20211008

[3]http://www.soyang.net/blog/a-short-history-of-print-media/

[4]https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/2010-11/Journalism/index.html

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