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Press Solidarity: Responding to Restrictive Policies and Reclaiming Access to Vital Police Information

THE DUTERTE regime has systematically taken steps to weaken the press, destroy its credibility and erode its capacity to report and to provide citizens with the information they need to make sense of what’s happening around them.

Journalism Review

Flagging More Risks for Youth: DepEd’s Random Drug Tests

THE DEPARTMENT of Education (DepEd) released on August 8 DepEd Order No. 40, s. 2017 (DO 40, s.2017) which implements the policy of carrying out random drug tests in public and private secondary schools nationwide. Section V of the order says that tests aims to “determine the prevalence of drug users among students,” and ultimately,

Capitalizing on A Victim’s Grief: GMA-7’s Insensitive Interview

Still Most Shabulized? TV5’s Aksyon Checks Duterte’s Iloilo Drug Figures

Fact-checking a Flip-flopping President

Navigating The Gridlock: The Grab, Uber Mess and Commuter Experience

Press Freedom Protection

Online Threats against Journalists Continue: TV Reporter Receives Hateful Threat

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A GMA News reporter received a malicious threat online on September 19 after covering Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s trip to Singapore in an effort to counter President Rodrigo Duterte’s allegation that the senator kept offshore bank accounts. The case was among the many online threats against media workers since President Duterte took

Radio Broadcaster Survives Shooting Attack in Legazpi City

Libel Cases: Three Journalists Charged, One Case Dismissed, News Team Posts Bail

Tabloid Columnist Wounded in Batangas Shooting

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

Up Close and Personal: Bloggers in the “People’s Palace”

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

Chronicle

Safhras Khan, 39

Arnold Amber, 77

Joel Palacios, 70

ANC’s Tina Monzon-Palma is 2017 UP Gawad Plaridel Awardee

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

‘No peace without women!’

“‘No peace without women!’” was first published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on July 9, 2017. By Rina Jimenez-David/Inquirer IN THE coverage of the current standoff in Marawi, the focus has been mostly on men — the forces led by the Maute brothers (with the strategic involvement of their mother Ominta aka “Farhana”), generals and soldiers

War, Peace and Maternal and Child Health in the ARMM

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

Changing Owners, Changing Interests

By Luis V. Teodoro THE PRIETO family decision to sell its majority interests in the Inquirer media group to business tycoon Ramon S. Ang, president of San Miguel Corporation, the largest conglomerate in the country and a major advertiser, has understandably raised concerns among journalists, media advocacy groups and non-governmental organizations. It is also provoking