Rappler comes to VSU to #MoveLeyte

by
Jed Asaph D. Cortes
Instructor, Department of Development Communication
Visayas State University
Visca, Baybay, Leyte, Philippines

Rappler, through its citizen journalism arm, Move.PH, brings its team to Visayas State University for their Chat Series on Social Media for Social Change. #MoveLeyte is the 11^th leg of this chat series.

#MoveLeyte will be held on Jan 25, 2013, 8:00 am -2:00 pm, at the VSU Convention Center. (The name acts as a Twitter hashtag as well.)

“In line with the theme, “Tukmang paggamit sa social media alang sa matinud-anong piniliay” (Harnessing social media for honest elections), the Move.PH event will introduce its citizen journalism platform for Rappler’s #PHVote coverage of the 2013 elections,” Rappler writes in its website.

“Students, faculty members, youth organizations, advocacy groups, and government agencies from Leyte and Samar are invited to participate in the Eastern Visayas leg of the series, a free event.”

The team who will come to VSU includes Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa (formerly the chief of CNN Jakarta News Bureau and ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs), veteran journalist Chay Hofileña, Storyline producer Patricia Evangelista, former GMA News Social Media Head Michael Josh Villanueva, Rappler multimedia reporters Natashya Gutierrez and Ayee Macaraig and its Move.PH coordinator Voltaire Tupaz.

An online registration form is available at Rappler (http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/19048-moveleyte-online-registration), so you could get tickets assuring you of the best seats during the chat series.

Our Department of Development Communication, the Development Communicators’ Society (DeCSo) and Amaranth, VSU’s student publication, are among the partners of Rappler for #MoveLeyte.  For official invitation with CHED endorsement to #MoveLeyte, click here.