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'We believe that the expertise honed within universities will help our journalism — by giving us a more nuanced perspective, providing richer analysis backed by their studies, and helping us reach their community'
If you’re a fan, as I am, of the musical Hamilton, you may remember John Laurens telling Aaron Burr to “give us a verse, drop some knowledge.”
It was a request, an invitation, for Burr to contribute to the conversation about the American revolution. In the past weeks, Rappler’s Community, led by our civic engagement arm MovePH, has been cooking up a collaboration about dropping some knowledge.
Who are the repositories of knowledge in society? The laboratories of ideas, the incubators of learning minds, and the playgrounds of the curious and questioning? Which institution is just as nerdy, if not more nerdy, than newsrooms?
Universities. For this reason, a lot of the experts we have tapped for political analysis, or clarification of legal matters and concepts have been professors and lecturers from our country’s top universities. Newsrooms and universities are natural allies in furthering public knowledge about matters of public interest.
This is why we’re collaborating with universities and think tanks within universities to enrich and deepen our coverage of upcoming political developments: the mid-year State of the Nation Address of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the possible impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
We believe that the expertise honed within universities will help our journalism — by giving us a more nuanced perspective, providing richer analysis backed by their studies, and helping us reach their community, the young Filipinos who are most in need of knowledge that would help them in their decisions.
Apart from tapping the political science professors and law school teachers of the University of the Philippines, expect to hear from professors and lecturers from Ateneo de Davao University, De La Salle University’s Jesse M Robredo Institute of Governance, Ateneo Human Rights Center, and more.
The perspectives of academe will be complemented by those from the development sector. This collaboration, which we call the Thought Leader Partnership, also involves longtime Rappler partners like IBON Foundation, Movement Against Disinformation, Council for People’s Development and Governance, Karapatan, and more.
Through this collaboration, you’ll see our partner professors and experts in Rappler chat rooms, in our shows, and video series.
Our first collaboration will be a community chat on Thursday, July 10, about the Mindanao pulse on the upcoming trials of Sara Duterte and Rodrigo Duterte. The daughter faces an impeachment trial. The father faces a trial over alleged crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court.
Mindanao has long stood by the Dutertes, as shown by the sky-high approval and trust ratings for them from their home region. But beyond these statistics, how are Mindanaoans talking about accountability for the Dutertes? Are perceptions shifting? (DOCUMENTARY: Dutertes’ grip on Davao City explained)
For this community chat, we have Mindanao-based professors and experts dropping their knowledge — Professor Neil Pancho from ADDU’s political science and history department, lawyer Meong Cabarde, director of Ateneo Public Interest and Legal Advocacy Center, and lawyer Ernesto Neri of the Movement Against Disinformation who hails from Cagayan de Oro.
Catch this community chat at 11 am on July 10 at the Philippine Politics chat room. Click this link to access the chat room. If you don’t have a Rappler account yet, you’ll be asked to register one to join the chat room. It’s worth the hassle since you get to join as many of our chat rooms as you want, based on the topic you care about.
The best way to access the chat rooms, however, is by downloading the Rappler app. The app includes all of our news and reportage, plus super useful notifications of breaking news and our top stories.
Next week, we’re also doing a Be The Good episode on the #OpenBicam campaign and why it matters, with iLead and DLSU’s Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance.
Much to dissect, and much to discuss, in the Philippine news cycle that never fails to astonish.
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