The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s investigative story on the government’s failed flood mitigation projects in Metro Manila led the roster of winners in the print category of this year’s Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA).
The winning piece, a two-part series by Krixia Subingsubing on the dismal state of the government’s flood control measures, was published in October last year. That was 10 months before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. started drawing attention to top public works contractors and inspecting allegedly anomalous flood control projects, setting off his administration’s biggest corruption scandal yet.
The Inquirer bagged three top honors and three special citations, with five more finalists, in various categories in the 47th edition of the awards, founded in 1978 by the late Cardinal Jaime Sin.
Subingsubing, who covers the House of Representatives, won the prize for Best Investigative Report. Her series opened with the story titled “Delays, woes clog Metro Manila’s disrupted flood control program”, which came out on Oct. 8, 2024. It was followed by another in-depth piece, “Government must eye engineering, social solutions to flood control.”
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