{"id":816,"date":"2012-09-20T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cebujournalismandjournalists.ph\/main\/?p=816"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:19:06","slug":"cebu-daily-news-siloy-goes-beyond-gray-print-columns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Cebu Daily News: Siloy goes beyond gray print columns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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One of Cebu Daily News\u2019 most compelling stories was triggered by a Facebook photo of an unnamed teenage girl trying to stand on the back of a whale shark in the shallows of a coastal town.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cebu Daily News: Siloy goes beyond gray print columns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


MARIAN Z. CODILLA AND EILEEN G. MANGUBAT<\/strong>
Sept. 20, 2012<\/em>

T<\/span>HE\u00a0image sparked online outrage, but it took a CDN reporter to track down the joyrider to Boljoon town, south Cebu, where she tearfully apologized for what she thought was a fun, harmless antic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was \u201cNO FUN FOR TUKI,\u201d said the CDN headline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Town officials were prompted to take more vigilant action to protect the gentle whale sharks who swim close to the shore in south Cebu\u2019s newest tourist attraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the age of social networks and the Internet, information moves with blurring speed. This offers new opportunities for newspapers to expand their storytelling capacity beyond columns of gray print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We reinforced the cdn.ph website with the blog cebudailynews.wordpress, Facebook and Twitter for breaking stories, video clips and full-document images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our first multi-media project stemmed from the Feb. 8, 2011 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old schoolgirl Ellah Joy Pique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A six-minute photo slide show with audio narration captured the agony of a father\u2019s loss, the slim clues left in Ellah Joy\u2019s burial blanket and the questions raised about the year\u2019s most controversial child-victim crime that remains unsolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first suspects, a Norwegian national and his Cebuana nurse fiancee, attracted worldwide attention until their release from detention a month later, when the police admitted they had the wrong targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To keep up with the running coverage, selected photos and a script provided another dimension in storytelling. We got feedback from Norway readers thanking CDN for the compressed version of this tragic mystery being followed halfway around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gone are the days of passive news consumption. Our readers have shown they want to contribute to shaping a story. Last May 3, CDN\u2019s popular \u201cSiloy is Watching\u201d photo corner moved to its own Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This invites readers to become citizen activists who witness, snap a photo and report scenes that deserve priority attention\u2014potholes, traffic violators, hazardous electric posts about to collapse etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images still go through the vetting of a CDN editor who writes the caption. Viewers can also send videos or private messages to expose things gone askew or to give praise in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our readers\u2014our audience\u2014don\u2019t just want to watch the world go by. They want to get involved in shaping it. New media opens that channel. \"\"

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