2013 | Page 27 of 32 | CMFR
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Some lessons and reminders: How the press covered the 2010 campaign and elections
Given the particularities of the May 2010 elections, media coverage of the election campaign itself needed, and promised to be, many things: it needed to be thorough as well... Read more
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FOI and FOE in the campaign agenda
Access to government-held information is the necessary condition for transparency in governance, and for empowering the citizenry to hold its elected officials to account. It is equally crucial... Read more
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The CMFR Monitor of the News Media Coverage of the 2010 Campaign and Elections:Conclusions and Recommendations
The official election campaign starts today. How can the media raise the level of discourse in this year's campaign? Read more
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FOI and FOE in the campaign agenda
Both the right to information and freedom of expression should be in the agenda of press and public discourse in the 2013 elections, and should help transform an otherwise... Read more
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Part 1: The fate of print…
I think I’m reconciled to the idea that I belong in the last generation of writers and readers on paper. Indeed, what I see is no mere generational gap,... Read more
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Part 1: The fate of print…
A whole new culture, nay, a whole new world is risen, and it’s a world that has no use for paper. Read more
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News correspondent forced out of board meeting
THE VICE mayor of a Misamis Oriental town barred a reporter from taking footage of a public meeting last 28 January 2013. Misamis Oriental is a province approximately 800... Read more
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Arroyo redux?
IN 2010 the election to the Presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III seemed to herald, if not the coming of a free expression regime, at least the promise... Read more
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Arroyo redux?
IN 2010 the election to the Presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III seemed to herald, if not the coming of a free expression regime, at least the promise... Read more
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Philippine press freedom ranking falls again
CMFR/Philippines – The Philippine ranking in the 2013 World Press Freedom Index fell to 147 from 140 last year. The World Press Freedom Index is an annual report of... Read more


