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Fire in the City: The Failure of Military Airstrikes in Marawi

THE BURNING of Marawi City may have been a case of the military shooting itself in the foot as misfires caused significant loss of fighting men. On May 31, media reported that an SF-260 aircraft targeting areas held by the Maute Group dropped the bomb instead on the location of military troops, who were

A Desperate Striptease for Readers

Hits and Misses: Coverage of the SC Decision on Factual Sufficiency of Proclamation No. 216

Insensitive Use of Victim’s Photo: Sensationalizing a Tragedy in a Public Place

Tax Reform Bill: Gains and Losses for Ordinary Taxpayers

Press Freedom Protection

Dumaguete Radioman Acquitted of Libel

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A local radio anchor was acquitted on charges of two counts of libel on 30 June 2017 in Dumaguete, the capital of the province of Negros Oriental, 639.56 kilometers south of Manila. Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo filed libel charges against dyMD Energy FM anchor Cornelio Pepino, known as Rex Cornelio on

News Photographer Threatened by City Councilor

Tabloid Columnist Gunned Down in Masbate

Reporters Harassed by Presidential Security Detail

Excellence and Best Practice in Journalism

TV5’s Ed Lingao receives 2016 Award of Distinction; ABS-CBN’s Gigi Grande named 2016 Marshall McLuhan Fellow

THE CENTER for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) awarded Ed Lingao of TV5 the 2016 Award of Distinction, and the Embassy of Canada presented the plaque for the 2016 Marshall McLuhan Fellow to Gigi Grande of ABS-CBN Corporation in a ceremony held today at the AIM Conference Center, Makati. The presentations took place after this

2016 Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar to Discuss Elections and the Duterte Administration

MindaNews Received Award of Distinction and Joseph Morong named Marshall McLuhan Fellow of 2015

In Context

UN Special Rapporteur Visit: Reporting the Non-negotiable Procedures

How to Get Away with Machismo: An Easy Pass for Duterte

From Fugitive to Ally: The Missing Story of Misuari’s Return

The Executive Order on FOI: A Freedom of Exceptions?

Chronicle

Obit

Call for Participants: Media Training on Fair Recruitment and Labor Migration

Obit

ABS-CBN Launches Filipino-language Website

Peace Journalism

Media and the Butig Siege: Covering the Unfolding Crisis

The Peace Process: Clarifying Issues, Explaining Concepts

Mamasapano Revisited: The Press Got Played

Closing the Pandora’s Box—A Difficult Task

Women’s Voices

War, Peace and Maternal and Child Health in the ARMM

“War, Peace and Maternal and Child Health in the ARMM,” is published in the social media news site Women Writing Women. This was first submitted to Women’s Peace Table. By Bugan Ni-Rosipan, (a nom de plume) a feature writer and multimedia artist, a hiker and cyclist, a mystic and a witch. MOST PHILIPPINE regions,

Bontoc Women still Man the Night Watch

Statements

CMFR’s Statement on the President’s Attack Against the Media: The Cheapest Form of Harassment and Intimidation

SPEAKING TO appointed government officials in local government on March 30, President Duterte once again assailed the press, singling out two leading news organizations, the Philippine Daily Inquirer and ABS-CBN. His rant, however, was an attack against the institution and the country’s community of journalists. Being itself in the media, as both practitioners and watchdog of

Year Seven After the Massacre: Still No Justice on Sixth Year of Trial

In Medias Res

Curbing Fake News

By Luis V. Teodoro THE DANGERS to free expression and press freedom of Senate Bill 1492, which would penalize any person, group or media organization that deliberately spreads “fake news,” are so apparent one wonders if its sponsor and supporters in the Senate have seriously considered its Constitutionality–or, for that matter, its potential impact on