Rappler’s Rambo Talabong chosen for journalism ethics fellowship in Europe

Rappler’s Rambo Talabong was chosen for the journalism program fellowship of the New York City-based Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE).

Talabong is set to join 15 other journalists from around the world for an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership in Germany and Poland, studying how international journalists and the German and international press enabled Nazi policies.

There, the fellows will attend lectures, engage in discussions, and visit historic sites in World War II.

“FASPE then draws on this historical example to help Journalism Fellows grasp their role and responsibility as individuals with influence in their communities and to lead them to identify and confront the ethical issues currently facing journalists and media institutions at large,” FASPE wrote on its website.

FASPE also gathers professionals in the fields of business, law, medicine, and seminary studies.

Aside from being chosen by FASPE, Talabong was awarded a citation in May 2021 in the 25th Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong.

In his November 2020 report, titled “He survives 3 shots to the head but is killed by gunman at hospital,” Rambo Talabong exposed the drug-related killing of 27-year-old Vincent Adia in Angono, Rizal, as the Duterte government stepped up its brutal war on drugs.

Talabong covers the House of Representatives for Rappler. – Rappler.com