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CASE FILES: The 12 Journalists Killed Under the Duterte Administration

Surigao broadcaster first killed under Duterte administration JUST two weeks after President Rodrigo R. Duterte assumed office on June 30, 2016, newly-elected Surigao provincial board member and broadcaster... Read more

THE STATE OF PHILIPPINE MEDIA: Relentless Attacks And Threats Online, On Ground, Across the Nation

By the Freedom for Media, Freedom for All Network Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, Philippine Press Institute (PPI), MindaNews, and... Read more

Too Much, Too Soon: Premature Campaigning via Media Exposure

AS THE midterm elections draw near, the electorate is once again being deluged with a tsunami of premature campaigning. The official campaign period has yet to begin, but... Read more

Third Telco Race: Not Much Said About the China Connection

Photo from the Department of Information and Communications Technology Facebook page ON NOVEMBER 7, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) declared the Mislatel consortium the provisional new major player... Read more

Online Report Supports Distorted Narrative on the Media

Ambassador Jan Top Christensen | CMFR file photo JEERS TO news.ABS-CBN.com for a report that focused on the misleading statements of a single source, and ignored others as... Read more

Policing the Police: The Inquirer on the PNP’s “Internal Cleansing”

Screengrab from Inquirer.net. CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its two-part report on the faulty internal mechanisms for police accountability. Inquirer reporters Krixia Subingsubing and Mariejo... Read more

Editorial Cartoons of the Week (November 9 to 16)

Manila Bulletin, November 10, 2018 The Philippine Star, November 10, 2018 The Manila Times, November 10, 2018 Manila Standard, November 12, 2018 Malaya Business Insight, November... Read more

Filipina journalist wins RSF Press Freedom award

Photo from Inday Espina-Varona’s Facebook profile VETERAN FILIPINA journalist Inday Espina-Varona received the Prize for Independence from the international press freedom watchdog Reporters without Borders (RSF- Reporters Sans Frontieres)... Read more

Rappler CEO receives Knight International Award

Photo from Rappler.com RAPPLER FOUNDER and executive editor Maria Ressa received the International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) 2018 Knight International Journalism Award on November 9 in Washington, DC for Rappler’s “innovation and... Read more

DOJ indicts Maria Ressa, Rappler Holdings Co. for tax evasion

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has found probable cause to charge Rappler Holdings Corporation (RHC) with tax evasion over the sale of its Philippine Depositary Receipts... Read more