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Remembering Ondoy: Lessons learned, more to do
CHEERS TO media organizations that produced special reports on the commemoration of the tenth year of Typhoon Ondoy, which dumped a whole month’s rainfall in just six hours on... Read more
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Editorial Cartoons of the Week (September 28 to October 4)
Manila Bulletin, September 28, 2019 Manila Standard, September 29, 2019 Malaya Business Insight, October 1, 2019 The Philippine Star, October 2, 2019 Malaya Business Insight, October 3, 2019 Read more
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Expanded Sotto Law: Limited protection nonetheless
IN 1946, lawmakers passed the Sotto Law or Republic Act (RA) 53 to protect journalists from being forced to reveal their sources. This was the Philippines’ Shield Law, a... Read more
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UP College of Mass Communication Alumni Association names 2019 Glory Awardees
THE UNIVERSITY of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UPCMC) Alumni Association will honor five accomplished alumni with the 2019 Glory Award. The “Glory Award” is named after Gloria... Read more
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Rappler wins award for drug war series
RAPPLER RECEIVED the 2019 Global Shining Light Award for its investigative series on President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war on September 28 at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Hamburg,... Read more
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Playwright Bonifacio Ilagan to receive 2019 Gawad Plaridel
MULTI-AWARDED FILMMAKER and writer Bonifacio Ilagan is this year’s Gawad Plaridel recipient. The annual Gawad Plaridel, established by the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UPCMC), recognizes... Read more
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Nation’s eyes on Congress: Media should help!
WITHOUT MUCH public attention, Congress railroaded a pork-laden budget, but media held back questions both on the speed of approval and dubious cuts and allocations. Voting 257-6 with no... Read more
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Aries Rufo Investigative and Explanatory Reporting Program launched
THE JOURNALISM for Nation Building Foundation (JNBF) launched last September 19 the Aries Rufo Investigative and Explanatory Reporting Fellowship Program for Filipino journalists. The fellowship is in honor of... Read more
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Martial Law Anniversary: Barely in the news, missing the obvious
SEPTEMBER 21 came and went this year without much press attention. The serious lack of interest stirs concern among those who lived through the period. More than four decades... Read more
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Media on the return of polio: Missing the “why” and “how” of it
AFTER NEARLY two decades, the dreaded disease, poliomyelitis or polio, is back in the Philippines. On September 19, the Department of Health (DOH) reported the re-emergence of polio with... Read more