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  • Reporting ASEAN Media Fellowship

      IN CELEBRATION of its 50th founding year in 2017, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is inviting mid-career journalists to submit in-depth stories to the Reporting ASEAN Fellowship... Read more

  • TV News on Duterte’s 100 Days

      PRESIDENT DUTERTE is waging an unforgiving war against drugs that has so far claimed over 3,000 lives. He has disparaged human rights as a shield to protect criminals. He... Read more

  • Vigilantes or Policemen: No Follow Up

      JEERS TO several media organizations for their failure to follow up the case of two policemen accused of murdering an anticrime crusader early this month. On Oct. 9,... Read more

  • Making Sense of the Surveys: Keep Suspects Alive

      THE NUMBERS are out. The Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey for the third quarter of 2016 revealed that the majority, or 84 percent, of 1,200 respondents were satisfied... Read more

  • Carrying Terrorists’ Message

      JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2 for airing a video that in violation of established protocols in the coverage of terrorism, disseminated terrorist propaganda. The Oct. 11 exclusive report “Mga... Read more

  • The Drug War from the Perspective of Those Covering It

      CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its three pieces on the administration’s drug war.  Written from the perspective of the media people covering it, the folio of... Read more

  • The Executive Order on FOI: A Freedom of Exceptions?

      TWENTY-NINE (29) years since the first Freedom of Information (FOI) bill was filed, the transparency measure still has not made it to law. Not surprisingly, President Rodrigo Duterte’s... Read more

  • Obit

      Antonio Mendoza Reyes, 74 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER Antonio Mendoza Reyes died peacefully in his sleep after a lingering illness Thursday, October 6. He was 74. Reyes was the publisher... Read more

  • Duterte and the Media: On the Rocks (Updated)

    A YEAR into his presidency, Rodrigo Duterte’s speeches remain peppered with expletives and tirades, the most controversial of which have been directed at respected institutions: the church, international human... Read more

  • Documenting Social Media Abuse

      CHEERS TO Rappler for its investigation of the fake social media accounts, trolls and bogus sites during the elections and its application as propaganda afterwards. The misuse and... Read more