MA in Journalism Lecturer Marie Carisa Ordinario was named recipient of the Hall of Fame award in the 17th Bright Leaf Agriculture Journalism Awards on November 14, 2024. Ordinario, a senior reporter for BusinessMirror, comes after winning five awards for single-author articles in 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Ordinario and two BusinessMirror colleagues won Best Agriculture Feature Story – National award in 2023. In 2022, Ordinario and MA Journalism candidate Tyrone Jasper Piad won the Agriculture Story of the Year award. Ordinario had a bountiful 2021 by winning both the Tobacco Story of the Year and the Best Agriculture News Story – National. Her first Bright Leaf award came in 2018, copping the Best Agriculture News Story – National plum for a story she wrote together with former colleague and BA Journalism alumnus Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas.
Ordinario thus became the second UST product to become a Bright Leaf Hall of Famer, the first being Arcalas.
The MA in Journalism program is offered by the Graduate School.
