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  • Media organizations decry ‘right of reply’ rule

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: January 30, 2013 | Filed under: Press Freedom

    Press freedom advocates and media organizations are asking the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to reconsider a resolution it issued last January 16 in connection with the upcoming...

  • An underhanded law

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: December 1, 2012 | Filed under: In Medias Res

    THE PRESIDENT’S remark that proper news practitioners should have no reason to worry if the Right of Reply Law passes is not only patronizing but also inversely misleading. It...

  • An underhanded law (Updated)

    Posted by: VOSantos | Posted on: November 30, 2012 | Filed under: Vergel O. Santos

    THE PRESIDENT’S remark that proper news practitioners should have no reason to worry if the Right of Reply Law passes is not only patronizing but also inversely misleading. It...

  • The FOI watch

    Posted by: Luis V. Teodoro | Posted on: August 4, 2014 | Filed under: Luis V. Teodoro

    He didn't mention it in his fifth State of the Nation Address, but President Benigno Aquino III has included the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill in his list of...

  • Government official: stop the criticisms or face libel

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: July 9, 2014 | Filed under: Attacks and threats against the media, Press Freedom

    CMFR/Philippines – Cebu’s provincial legal officer and head of the province’s Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) threatened during a press conference to file a libel complaint against a journalist...

  • FOI advocates to admin: Speed up FOI bill passage

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: July 3, 2014 | Filed under: Freedom of Information

    Freedom of information (FOI) advocates are asking President Benigno Aquino III and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte to prioritize the bill and pass it within the year. In a Town Hall...

  • Philippine ranking drops in World Press Freedom Index

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: February 14, 2014 | Filed under: Press Freedom

    CMFR/Philippines – The Philippines dropped from 147th place in 2013 to 149th in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index released on 12 February 2014 by the Paris-based organization Reporters Without...

  • FOI Advocates Light Up for FOI, Demand Action by House of Representatives

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: September 27, 2013 | Filed under: Freedom of Information, Statements

    STATEMENT OF THE RIGHT TO KNOW, RIGHT NOW! COALITION WE ARE members of the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition, a network of more than 150 organizations from various sectors...

  • Senate committee approves FOI bill

    Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: September 20, 2013 | Filed under: Freedom of Information, Press Freedom

    The Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media has approved the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill and will submit its report next week, said committee chairperson Senator Grace...

  • Arroyo redux?

    Posted by: Luis V. Teodoro | Posted on: February 4, 2013 | Filed under: Luis V. Teodoro

    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...