Community Press Role in Nation Building

Philippine Press Institute (PPI) Executive Director Ariel Sebellino stressed the role of community press which is for nation building by "preserving democracy and protecting press freedom" in his keynote talk at the Negros Press Club’s 76th Induction at Bascon Hotel, Bacolod, PH.

Earlier he inducted into office the new officers of the NPC led by Negros Daily Bulletin (NDB) Editor Arman Toga.

Sebellino (Image, NDB-online.com)

The media "is the quickest to spot and report whatever form of corruption and anomaly that lurks in the convoluted midst of day to day survival and discontent," he pointed out.

Source of Media Power

He mentioned that the power of media emanates "from the public or people who they serve that set the news, and whose thirst for truth and information is incessant and vary from time to time, depending of the turn of events."

He said that mediamen take pride to always cling to "noble intention of letting the public make sense of the news - the very product of our journalistic fervor and commitment of shaping the minds of Filipinos."

Arman Toga Ready To Wield His Pen of Conscience

Raising Arman Toga's hand are former NPC Presidents:
Edmud Aspero and Atty. Rex Remitio

As an active journalist and media man, Arman Toga is ready to wield his pen of social conscience to let the people know that "press freedom lives on strong in Negros" as what the National Press Club president Jerry S. Yap described it in his statement published in Berteni "Toto" Causing's blog in extending congratulations to him as the new Negros Press Club for 2012-2013.

Negros Daily Bulletin editor, Arman Toga, 48, is a man to watch as the new NPC president especially in this trying and decisive days and years of the press in Negros and in the country as a whole.

NDB Arman Toga Elected As The New Negros Press Club Prexy

Negros Daily Bulletin Editor Arman Toga got the president position in Saturday annual election of Negros Press Club set of officers for 2012 after getting a landslide votes against Aladdin Alas held at the NPC building, Bacolod City.

Arman Toga will run the NPC, the oldest, prestigious press club in the country, with 154 current members coming from the print, broadcast and television networks based here in Bacolod City for this year's term.

The other elected NPC officers are Edgar Lucasan, DyRL program manager as vice president; Clarence Locsin of DyWB-Bombo Radyo, secretary; Aquilino "Boy" Ciocon of DyRL, Treasurer; Chrysee Samillano of Daily Star, Auditor.

Negros Press Club: 'No Things Divide Us'

Incumbent Negros Press Club (NPC) president John Elmer Ubaldo broke his silence and reacted to ex-NPC prexy Julius Mariveles' unprecedented resignation as "public display of affection."  on the "malicious imputation" as alleged by the latter.

Follows is Ubaldo's open statement posted at The Negros Press Club facebook account in its entirety:

I'm hoping that this 'public display of affection' (hehehe, can't think of another term) for past president Julius Mariveles will reverberate to all members of the club. As incumbent president and director during his term, I am a living witness to his administration. Fact is, I'm also liable for whatever mistakes or failures that the previous administration might had committed, if there was any. As I have said no money was lost and no funds went to anybody’s pocket. All club funds were spent in the building renovation, educational seminars (sessions@theclub), social gatherings, and mutual aid to members who were hospitalized and assistance to the families of our departed colleagues.

Former Negros Press Club President Resigns

Negros Press Club is the oldest Press Organization not only here in Negros Occidental but in the whole country, now the newest Press in rift. Que pasa?

Mariveles

Julius Mariveles , who was the last year elected Negros Press Club President made a statement in the evening of Wednesday, August 24 in his Facebook account that he has resigned from NPC effective immediately, after an emergency meeting of Negros Press Club on that day.

"I have made a decision," Mariveles unequivocally expressed in NEGROS PRESS CLUB Facebook account.

He resigned as a member of the Club effective immediately. He thanked all his fellow members. "It has been a humbling experience to have serve you," Mariveles gratefully expressed at NPC FB's.

"I don't have the time for people who do not know what due process means... I have low tolerance for stupidity," explained Mariveles to one of his FBs friend Avelyn Agudon Marañon.