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Changing with change

Second and last part TO SWITCH media or not seems to have become a non-issue for newspapers. It has been decided by arrangements beyond their control: to not switch is... Read more

Attacking press freedom while “enhancing” it

CERTIFIED by President Benigno Aquino III as a priority bill last January, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act will be among those discussed by the House of Representatives when... Read more

Esperat Case UpdateFamily asks court to order arrest of ‘mastermind’

THE FAMILY of slain journalist Marlene Esperat asked the Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) last 13 April 2012 to issue an alias warrant of arrest against the alleged masterminds... Read more

Murder as a way to fame

I am not questioning the news worthiness of the case. The loss of young lives will be a story that strikes a most responsive chord even as time moves... Read more

Alternatives

SINCE 1986, conventional wisdom in the Philippines has paid tribute to the role of the “alternative press” in the overthrow of the Marcos regime that year. Read more

Reporter decries alleged police harassment

The Olongapo City police director allegedly attacked and barred a reporter from covering a hostage-taking incident last 3 April 2012. But the police director denied the accusation. Read more

Radio blocktimer killed in ambush

CMFR/ Philippines – Police have yet to identify the suspects in the ambush of a radio blocktimer and barangay (village) council chairman last 8 April 2012 in Davao City. ... Read more

The fading print (updated)

AS IT does every year around this time the Philippine Press Institute, the national organization of newspapers, will meet in a general assembly from the 23rd to the 25th,... Read more

Freedom of expression and media freedom

The two are not quite the same thing. THE NEWS about the telephone-hacking scandal involving The News of the World broke out in July 2011. Extensive coverage tracked the investigation... Read more

Angelo Castro Jr., 67

NEWS ANCHOR Angelo Castro Jr. died on April 5 of lung cancer at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City where he had been confined for three... Read more

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