// Statements
By the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) For more information please contact CMFR: (+63 2) 894-1314/894-1326/840-0903/840-0889 staff@cmfr-phil.org www.cmfr-phil.org www.twitter.com/cmfr THE CENTER for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) reiterates its warning, made in many other instances in the past, that media failure to regulate themselves will invite government intervention. It is in fact happening [...]
// Press Freedom Watch
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A Manila court has acquitted the alleged gunmen in the 2004 killing of a broadcaster in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte. Ilocos Norte is a province 399 kilometers north of Manila. Branch 54 of the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) cleared former Senior Police Officer Apolonio Medrano and Basilio Yadao of charges for the [...]
// Activities
The Safety in the Cliche (updated)By Jonathan Corpus Ong By now Filipinos home and abroad, and witnesses the world over, have a stock of visuals and voices that would mark their experiences of last Aug. 23’s tragic events in the Quirino Grandstand in Manila. A tall, proud tourist bus, its sides emblazoned in bold Chinese characters, became the unwitting battleground [...]
// Media education
Government and Media in an Information AgeBy Melinda Quintos de Jesus – So far, President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III has been doing a great job communicating with the public and the media. He has brought to the presidential press conference a refreshing style, relaxed and easy, readily providing a lot of information and sharing his thoughts even when he is [...]
// Media development
Newsbreak to fund investigative health reportsOnline newsmagazine Newsbreak is offering six fellowships for journalists interested in doing investigative reports on health. Under the Maggie de Pano Fund for Investigative Reporting for Health, journalists may avail of funding for reports on health. The reports may be on issues such as the misuse of public health funds, policies that affect public health, and any [...]
