A QUICK scan of media coverage shows that House Speaker Martin Romualdez has been consistently in news headlines. News follows...
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From the Newsrooms: Demand for confidential funds trending across agencies
CMFR Staff
/ September 20, 2023
THE NATIONAL budget discussion is tedious and technical. But it remains a core process that determines how the government fulfills...
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Heroic effort to draw marginalized Indigenous communities into the mainstream
CMFR Staff
/ September 20, 2023
CHEERS TO Philippine Daily Inquirer for a report that opens up the world of Indigenous communities in Zamboanga province, describing...
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Rappler, Ressa acquitted of 5th tax evasion case
CMFR Staff
/ September 15, 2023
ON SEPTEMBER 12, Pasig City Regional Trial Court Branch 157 acquitted Rappler Holdings Corporation (RHC) and its president and Nobel...
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From the Newsrooms: Retailers, economists hit rice price cap
CMFR Staff
/ September 12, 2023
THE MARCOS administration seems to have gotten snagged by its economic policies as the private sector and academe pounced on...
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FINALLY, GMA explains erratic weather, connects strong storms to looming El Niño
CMFR Staff
/ September 12, 2023
CHEERS TO GMA Integrated News for their report on how El Niño could be affecting our weather, explaining both the...
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GMA-7 report calls attention to El Niño’s impact in Mindanao
CMFR Staff
/ September 8, 2023
CHEERS TO GMA Integrated News Weather Center for a report that checked on the situation of Mindanao agriculture, providing information...
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Araullo’s magnum opus: GMA sheds light on crime hounding children
CMFR Staff
/ September 8, 2023
CHEERS TO GMA News Online for a searing special report on a criminal practice at once hidden and on the...
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‘Systemic shortcomings:’ Rappler spotlights not-so-PWD friendly rail system
CMFR Staff
/ September 8, 2023
CHEERS TO Rappler for its in-depth report and documentary on the plight of persons with disability (PWDs) who commute using...
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From the Newsrooms: Monsoon rains flood NCR; Price cap on rice
CMFR Staff
/ September 5, 2023
SUPER TYPHOON Goring, Typhoon Hanna and the prevailing southwest monsoons drenched Metro Manila, including some provinces in Northern Luzon and...
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JOURNALISM REVIEW
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Heroic effort to draw marginalized Indigenous communities into the mainstream
September 20, 2023CHEERS TO Philippine Daily Inquirer for a report that opens up the world of Indigenous communities in Zamboanga province, describing the work of a dedicated Filipino to enable his community... -
From the Newsrooms: Retailers, economists hit rice price cap
September 12, 2023THE MARCOS administration seems to have gotten snagged by its economic policies as the private sector and academe pounced on the president’s decision to cap rice prices, so soon after... -
FINALLY, GMA explains erratic weather, connects strong storms to looming El Niño
September 12, 2023CHEERS TO GMA Integrated News for their report on how El Niño could be affecting our weather, explaining both the immediately felt effects and the longer-term phenomena that could manifest... -
GMA-7 report calls attention to El Niño’s impact in Mindanao
September 8, 2023CHEERS TO GMA Integrated News Weather Center for a report that checked on the situation of Mindanao agriculture, providing information that identified it as the region that will bear the...
ALERTS
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Radio broadcaster shot dead in Oriental Mindoro third journalist killed under Marcos Jr.’s watch
June 1, 2023CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Two men aboard a motorcycle shot and killed a radio commentator on May 31, 2023, in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro, 237 kilometers south of Manila. -
State agents harass media workers who refused to sign as witnesses in drug op
March 21, 2023CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Reporters covering the aftermath of an anti-illegal drugs operation in Pasay City, Metro Manila were harassed by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on March 16.... -
Court acquits Rappler’s Maria Ressa of tax evasion
January 19, 2023CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) on 18 January 2023 cleared Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa of all four tax evasion charges filed against... -
Editor red-tagged by SMNI propagandists
October 14, 2022CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Ronalyn Olea, managing editor of Bulatlat, was red-tagged and called an “operatibong internet operator” for the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army and National Democratic Front...

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