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Lorenzo Natali Media Prize

Sharing the announcement from the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize Secretariat: The European Commission has announced the launch of the 2017 Lorenzo Natali Media Prize, which recognises outstanding reporting on development and poverty... Read more

Killers Still At Large: The Myth of Law and Order

DEVELOPMENTS IN President Duterte’s war on drugs have raised issues which have been largely ignored by the administration and consequently, hardly touched in the news. The scandal which... Read more

Mining Crackdown: Digging for Context in a Minefield of Issues

IT WAS not exactly a loving message on February 14; at least, not for the mining industry, especially the workers threatened with the loss of livelihood. When Secretary... Read more

Napoles Trial: Examining the SolGen’s Move to Acquit Napoles

THE INFAMOUS Janet Lim Napoles is back in the news, courtesy of government’s principal lawyer, Solicitor General Jose Calida. Napoles is the central figure in the P10-billion pork... Read more

Reporting the Surigao Quake: Coping with the Aftermath, Preparing for the “Big One”

IN THE Philippines, tremors happen almost every day; many occurring without notice except by the agencies and experts involved. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology... Read more

FOUR DAYS IN FEBRUARY

Day 1 TO MOST Filipinos, it all began with the cackle of voices over the transistor radio. “I was informed by my boys that there is to be an... Read more

Erring Cops in Malacañang: Miscommunication Between Commander-in-Chief and PNP

JEERS TO the media for failing to point out the seeming disconnect between President Rodrigo Duterte and the Philippine National Police (PNP) authorities on the erring cops who... Read more

Reporters Harassed by Presidential Security Detail

CMFR/PHILIPPINES- Three radio reporters were allegedly harassed by members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) at the Malacanang Palace last February 7. The PSG denied such incident. Aya... Read more

Cotabato Radio Blocktimer Shot Dead

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio blocktimer, who was also a close-in aide of Mayor Russel Abonado of M’lang, Cotabato, was fatally shot in this town by unidentified suspects on... Read more

CA upholds grant of Ampatuan Massacre accused’s bail petition

THE COURT of Appeals affirmed the grant of bail to Sajid Islam Ampatuan, one of the primary suspects in the November 23, 2009 killing of 58 persons in Ampatuan... Read more