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PH Ranking Drops Six Places in 2018 RSF Press Freedom Report

THE PARIS-BASED Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF-Reporters Without Borders) has released its 2018 World Press Freedom Index report, which noted “growing animosity towards the media” globally. The Philippines ranked 133rd,... Read more

Misleading headlines are bad for the press and public

JEERS TO GMA News Online for a misleading headline on a report that suggested that Rappler failed to show up at the Department of Justice (DOJ), as the report... Read more

Context Missing: Reporting the PH-China Joint Exploration Proposal

EVERYONE SHOULD know by now about President Rodrigo Duterte’s “pivot to China.” Media reports have quoted him as citing economic benefits from it, among them loans and partnerships mainly... Read more

Connecting Coverage of Economic Gains to the Poor

THE WORLD Bank and the Asian Development Bank expects the Philippines to sustain the 6.7 to 6.9 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth according to their 2018 economic updates.... Read more

Gabby Lopez retires as ABS-CBN chair, cousin Mark to take over

EUGENIO “GABBY” L. Lopez III has stepped down from his position as the chairman of the board of ABS-CBN Corporation, nominating his cousin Martin “Mark” L. Lopez to... Read more

Call for Applications: Media in Conflicts Seminar

JOURNALISTS AND media personnel from the Philippines are invited to the upcoming Media in Conflicts Seminar (MICS) from August 26 to 30 in Herzliya, Israel. MICS is an international... Read more

Why fact check—and why Rappler and VERA Files

By Luis V. Teodoro THE DESIGNATION by the social media giant Facebook of Rappler and VERA Files as fact- checkers of its news feeds was in recognition of the... Read more

Reuters’ Manuel Mogato Receives Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

A FILIPINO journalist is one of the recipients of this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for his reporting on the killings in the Duterte administration’s “war” on drugs.... Read more

Nestor Mata, 92

VETERAN JOURNALIST Nestor Mata passed away last April 12. He was 92. Mata’s career in journalism spanned six decades. He began writing at the age of 21 for the... Read more

Plane-Spotting: Photos to Keep Tabs on China’s Incursion in PH Waters

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and GMA-7 for keeping track of the continuing Chinese activity in the West Philippine Sea through photos (See: “Inquirer Photos Cannot Lie”). On... Read more