Online 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 [...]

The Probe Media Foundation Inc. (PMFI) is inviting media practitioners to submit entries to its “Mulat Pinoy Media Fellowship Program: Philippine Population in Focus”. The fellowship, according to an official news release, seeks to maximize traditional and new media to get more Filipinos aware of how population is intertwined with poverty and development issues. Although media [...]

The Asia Pacific Journalism Center (APJC) invites journalists in the region to apply for its two-week fellowship program. The fellowship, themed “Challenges to stability and development in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore”, will be held from Nov. 8 to 26. The Australia-based APJC is a nonprofit organization that conducts programs for journalists in developing countries. It organized [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information on the Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar (JVOJS), please contact the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) at any of the following numbers: (+63 2) 894-1314/894-1326. ———————————————————————————————- The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) held the Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar (JVOJS) which discussed press issues and [...]

Students and practitioners of the media are invited to submit papers for a conference on Asian media and culture this October. The University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) and South Korea’s Inha University are organizing the conference themed “Asian Media Cooperation and Cultural Exchange” from October 7 to 8. The news [...]

Journalists covering conflict situations are invited to submit entries for the first Red Cross Awards for Humanitarian Reporting. Organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross or ICRC in partnership with the Philippine National Red Cross, the award, said the news release, will recognize “stories that best illustrate the humanitarian consequence of armed conflicts.” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By 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 [...]