2005 | Page 4 of 4 | CMFR

  • Editor’s Note

    In journalism classrooms, students are taught that the ideal journalist is a watchdog of society, a voice for the voiceless. In recent years, however, journalism educators and practitioners in... Read more

  • Phil Star correspondent receives threat

    Three allegedly drug-crazed men hurled stones and tried to barge into the houseof a provincial journalist working for a national daily, just past midnightlast 11 August in Butuan City,... Read more

  • Jennings (1938-2005)

    Not just a news reader, Canadian-born Peter Jennings, stood out as one of the most distinguished broadcast journalists in the United States. Last Sunday, he succumbed to lung cancer... Read more

  • Newsbreak editor gets death threat

    It would seen that threats against journalists and freedom of expression are no longer confined to the provinces but has made its way to the capital. It is indeed... Read more

  • Radio station ordered closed for maligning local official

    A mayor in a southern Philippine city ordered the closure of a local radio station, which had been criticizing him on-air. Mayor Jose Galario Jr. of Valencia City, Bukidnon,... Read more

  • Local journalist harassed, threatened after exposing governor’s anomalies

    A correspondent based in Batangas, south of Manila, has been living in danger for more than three weeks now after her articles exposing corruption in the province angered Governor... Read more

  • Local editor jailed for contempt

    An editor of a local paper in Naga City, southeast of Manila, was sent to prison for indirect contempt last July 20. Jose Perez, editor-in-chief of the weekly Bicol... Read more

  • CPJ story on the journalist killing in RP

    An issue that is drawing global media attention to the Philippines is the high death toll of journalists in the country. In the past few months, we, at the... Read more

  • Kris and tell

    Gone are the days of stereotypical eighteenth-century women who can’t seem to do anything for and by themselves.Unfortunately, the Philippines’s very own justice secretary seems to be stuck in... Read more

  • Whitewashing the Esperat case

    Is the Department of Justice (DOJ) aiding and abetting the guilty? The DOJ endorsed the dismissal of the case against the suspected masterminds in the 24 March 2005 slay... Read more



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