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IN MEMORIAMASSISTANT STATE PROSECUTOR NESTOR SERRANO LAZARO

A graduate of the Far Eastern University (Bachelor of Science in Commerce-Banking and Finance, and Bachelor of Laws), Assistant State Prosecutor Nestor “Nes” Lazaro began his career in the... Read more

A spectacle within a spectacle (Updated)

QUITE OBVIOUSLY, impeachment is not strictly lawyers’ business. If the defense lawyers and some members of the court try, as in fact they do, to circumscribe it within legalities,... Read more

Covering CoronaMedia in aid of accountability

THE MEDIA coverage of the ongoing impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona is generally fair. But the tendency of the press to be reactive when reporting has once... Read more

Journalists in the news

Some journalists who covered or are still covering the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona—which for weeks has been the biggest story in print, broadcasting, and online media—have... Read more

What’s the limit in covering disasters?

WHEN TROPICAL Storm “Sendong” (international name: “Washi”) hit Northern Mindanao especially the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan last December 16, it dumped more than a month of... Read more

Two foreign journalists killed in Syria

A foreign reporter and a photojournalist were killed during a military attack in the rebel-held town of Homs in Syria last 22 February 2012. Read more

Media in Southeast Asia

THE LANDSCAPE of Southeast Asia presents a diversity of political and governmental systems, of religions and faiths, culture and custom, history and society. Some experts have said that nothing... Read more

PJR Reports January-February 2012

The nine-years during which Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was in power were particularly problematic for journalists and press freedom. Among other threats, her husband Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo filed 11... Read more

Decriminalizing libel Towards true self-regulation

THE CONVICTION for libel in 2007 of Davao broadcaster Alexander Adonis, for which he was sentenced to a prison term of two years to four years and six months,... Read more

The spirit is both little willing and weak

NO ONE I know is as possessed by the spirit of EDSA as Tito Caluag. Father Tito front-lined at EDSA then and front-lines for it now, fighting to transform... Read more

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