In 2015, the Philippine Daily Inquirer hosted the Young Spikes competition to shortlist the Philippine representative for the Digital Competition in Singapore.

The brief was simple: get young people to visit their news website. The barriers presented were that young Filipinos felt the brand was dated and data showed they were uninterested in hard news. We were asked to feature that the online news site had other forms of story-telling within its pages.

But my partner and I chose to challenge the brief.

We argued that hard news should instead be the focus because lack of news education is what perpetuates corruption in the Philippines.