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CMFR’s Statement on the President’s Attack Against the Media: The Cheapest Form of Harassment and Intimidation
SPEAKING TO appointed government officials in local government on March 30, President Duterte once again assailed the press, singling out two leading news organizations, the Philippine Daily Inquirer and ABS-CBN. ... Read more
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Alex Tizon, 57
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING FILIPINO-AMERICAN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST Alex Tizon died in his sleep due to natural causes in Oregon, USA. He was 57. According to his family and the University... Read more
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Reviewing the Impeachment Process
FILIPINOS ARE not strangers to the idea of impeachment. Recent political history saw the impeachment of a sitting president, Joseph Estrada; an incumbent chief justice of the Supreme... Read more
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Against Technicism
By Luis V. Teodoro IS THE journalist only a technician skilled in reporting the narratives of the powerful? Or are journalistic skills — the capacity to look for and... Read more
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Tokhang Take Two: Covering the PNP’s Return to the Drug War
WITHIN SEVEN months of President Duterte’s drug war, over 7,000 persons have been killed by police or by so-called vigilantes/unidentified assailants. Meanwhile two major scandals revealed the involvement... Read more
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Water Under The Bridge: Sidelining Lascañas’ Testimony
IS THE involvement of Rodrigo Duterte, then mayor of Davao City, in the killings perpetrated by the Davao Death Squad a dead issue? A member of the DDS... Read more
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Jamer Earl Breslin, 88
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING COLUMNIST Jamer Earl “Jimmy” Breslin died from pneumonia Sunday, March 19. He was 88. According to his wife and a former city councilwoman, Ronnie Eldridge, Breslin... Read more
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Call for Nominations: UP Gawad Plaridel 2017
THE UNIVERSITY of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) is accepting nominations for the annual UP Gawad Plaridel. Individuals and institutions may nominate Filipino media practitioners who have... Read more
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Reforming Government Media
By Luis V. Teodoro THE REFORM of the government media system mostly consisting of radio and television networks has been tried at least once. But an announcement of... Read more
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CA Rejects Yasay: Media Follow Paper Trail
“I AM a Filipino citizen. I am not an American, I am not a dual citizen, I am not stateless. I am a Filipino citizen, and I am a... Read more