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PJR Reports asks: comments, rants, suggestions?

CMFR’s flagship publication, the PJR Reports (formerly the Philippine Journalism Review) is the result of a continuing monitoring activity of how the press covers and reports events and issues.... Read more

Libel charges against publisher and columnist dismissed

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A local court in Metro Manila dismissed a libel case against a columnist and the publisher of a national daily last 31 March 2011. The order was... Read more

“Nobody home” at op-ed

Jeers to Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Amando Doronila for providing one more argument in favor of a right of reply law by reacting today to a supposed letter to... Read more

Journalists allege manhandling by US envoy’s escorts and military hospital guards

CMFR/Philippines – Journalists covering the turnover of donations by the US Embassy to a military hospital in Quezon City said they were manhandled by the envoy’s escorts and by... Read more

Another broadcaster arrested for libel (UPDATED)

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Another broadcaster facing libel charges was arrested last 18 April 2011 in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte. Lanao del Norte is a province approximately 792 kilometers south... Read more

Judging Willie

By Luis V. Teodoro (“Vantage Point”, BusinessWorld, April 15-16, 2011) Former University of the Philippines law dean Raul Pangalangan says that the public call for an advertisers’ boycott of... Read more

Legitimizing plagiarism

JEERS TO Philippine Star’s Alfred A. Yuson for an argument that in effect legitimizes plagiarism, and could give journalists, writers, and editors the mistaken impression that using portions of... Read more

JOSE L. PAVIA, 72

Jose L. Pavia, one of the nation’s most respected journalists, died this morning (18 April) in the hospital where he had been confined following a series of... Read more

P-Noy urged to stop killings

SEVERAL MEDIA, media advocacy organizations and journalism professors and students led by the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) are urging President Benigno Aquino III to take concrete steps... Read more

CONCRETE ACTION NEEDED TO STOP THE KILLINGS: An Open Letter to President Benigno Aquino III

AS THE NATION takes its annual Holy Week retreat, the advocates for justice for slain journalists and press freedom protection recall their hopes in your assumption to power and... Read more

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