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What the public wants

Was it really necessary to devote so much airtime and space to the incident? And on the very same day too as the resumption of the Corona impeachment trial,... Read more

Covering the Impeachment Missing: The Voice of the People

In apparent awareness of the trial’s significance, the major networks and broadsheets as well as online news sites understandably invested resources in its coverage by sending multiple... Read more

Columnist killed in Laguna province

Police have yet to identify suspects in the killing of a columnist for a local daily in San Pablo City, Laguna last 24 April 2012. The local police has... Read more

The people won’t be fooled

AFTER A break of five weeks, the trial of Renato Corona resumes Monday (May 7), its momentum, you’d imagine, naturally diminished. In fact a poll in mid-break already showed... Read more

World Press Freedom Day 2012

In observance of World Press Freedom Day this year, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has created a special online page calling attention and action to three... Read more

Lessons in transition

The People Power events of February 1986, which brought down the Marcos dictatorship, were the first of such political events to be televised on real time by then newly... Read more

Send a Call to Aquino to End Impunity in the Philippines

Send a call to President Benigno Aquino III to end impunity in the Philippines. Read more

Six surprises in (un)covering Myanmar

Going to Myanmar as a journalist was unthinkable only six months ago Read more

THERE ARE errors of malice and errors of incompetence in the practice of journalism. A reporter may deliberately distort a story to manipulate readers, viewers or listeners into interpreting... Read more

The press as judge

JEERS TO Korina Sanchez for a column in the Cebu City newspaper The Freeman in which she prejudged the guilt of Philippine Navy personnel on the ongoing Philip... Read more

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