Media on Elections and Violence 2016
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RECOMMENDATIONS
News organizations, local and national, should provide greater protection for their media workers, including campaigns to promote press freedom protection as a value in a democratic society.
The study of conflict and violence in the Philippines has enough experts and scholarly views. These involve aspects of the political economy which grounds development issues and problems of governance.  Channels for sharing this knowledge should be established to benefit both the press and police and help them expand the scope of police and press reports.
The police and the press are at work in the same arena of issues during elections. Moderated discussions could facilitate the sharing of perspectives that could make more meaningful the reporting of ERVs and violence in general. A shared framework of understanding about the issues of conflict in certain provinces could promote more contextual reports, with media drawing from interviews with police and other institutional leaders of the community.
The limited scope of so-called national newspapers and broadcast programs fail to inform the public with a unified view of the social and political realities of the province. The coverage of Mindanao, for example, is left only to correspondents without much discussion with the editorial leaders of the organization. This results in the treatment of regional issues as just so much local community news. It is imperative to re-train Manila-based news rooms to empower their regional reporters and bureau chiefs to help them set a truly national agenda for news.
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