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PDEA and Media Scored: Careless Reporting of a Drug Bust

THE MEDIA should find it easy enough to report a drug bust. Police reporters have years of experience chronicling such episodes. Ethical issues, however, hound this kind of reporting... Read more

Obit

Christine Herrera, 49 MANILA STANDARD senior reporter Christine Herrera died of heart attack while on vacation in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, November 19. She was 49. During her time... Read more

The Media and the Duterte Presidency: Impunity Acute and Benign, Fettered Flow of information

by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism THE PRESS in the... Read more

PROLONGED AGONY: Looking Back at the 8 Years of the Ampatuan, Maguindanao Massacre

Eight years, zero conviction. This summarizes the 2017 update on the trial of the accused in the Ampatuan massacre of 2009. With more than 100 charged, even a... Read more

Media on 31st ASEAN Summit

Screen grab from the ASEAN 2017 official website The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit is always a major media event, especially in the country that hosts it,... Read more

More Mud from Mocha

CMFR would rather ignore Mocha Uson. But she is a public official, involved in presidential communication. AS SUCH, what she says or blogs should be subject to scrutiny. ... Read more

Radio Broadcaster Shot Dead in Surigao del Sur

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Unidentified men shot and killed a local radio broadcaster and injured his partner Tuesday night, 24 October 2017 in Bislig, Surigao del Sur. Surigao del Sur... Read more

A Step Backward in the Campaign to End Impunity

AS THE world observes International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on November 2, the press community in the Philippines carves out a more extended period... Read more

Keeping Tabs on the BBL

DURING THE turnover ceremony of the new Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) draft in Malacañang on July 17, Bangsamoro Transition Committee (BTC) chair Ghazali Jaafar proclaimed it as the... Read more

Talking Heads and Human Rights: Media’s Poor Grasp of Something Basic

CRITICISM OF the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has reflected the limited understanding of and even a lack of appreciation of human rights. Social media threads hold the... Read more