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Detained journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio bags 2026 IWMF justice award

PH · · Inquirer Philippines

TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Philippines — Detained Tacloban-based journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio was honored with the 2026 Wallis Annenberg Justice for Women Journalists Award by the International Women’s Media Foundation. “Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio–who covers state violence in the Philippines and is now imprisoned within that same system–received the IWMF’s 2026 Wallis Annenberg Justice for