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Improving the Media Environment in Southeast Asia

A GROUP of 17 media experts from 9 ASEAN-countries gathered in a side-event at the 2016 Jakarta World Forum for Media Development (WFMD) on September 21 and 22 to... Read more

Obit

Virgilio Vitug, 65 JOURNALIST AND POET Virgilio “Vet” Vitug died after a lingering illness Monday, Sept. 26. He was 65. Vitug was a reporter and columnist for several newspapers... Read more

Jokowi Bests Duterte: A Most Critical Period for Media in Southeast Asia

By Melinda Quintos de Jesus It cannot be helped. Our regional engagement is enhanced by the quality of our leaders. In the past decades, I have met with our... Read more

TV5’s Ed Lingao receives 2016 Award of Distinction; ABS-CBN’s Gigi Grande named 2016 Marshall McLuhan Fellow

THE CENTER for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) awarded Ed Lingao of TV5 the 2016 Award of Distinction, and the Embassy of Canada presented the plaque for the 2016... Read more

Evaluating the Impact of ‘War on Drugs’

CHEERS TO Philstar.com for developing an interactive microsite on the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. Published on Sept. 19, 2016, Newslab.Philstar.com examines the administration’s anti-illegal drugs campaign through... Read more

Veloso Execution: Damaging Damage Control

THREE MONTHS into the presidency, the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte still has not found a way to speak in one, clear and consistent voice – a failure... Read more

Reporting ‘Endo’: Complicated, Confusing

AS PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Rodrigo Duterte vowed to end labor contractualization or “endo,” a practice that prevents workers from attaining the full benefits of regular employment. Duterte’s promise, together... Read more

Distasteful Headline

JEERS TO the Manila Standard for a headline that reeked with sexual innuendo. On Sept. 21, the Manila Standard ran a banner story on the House of Representatives... Read more

Fact-Checking Duterte’s ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ Order

CHEERS TO VERA Files for fact-checking a Sept. 14 claim by the Philippines representative to the United Nations that President Rodrigo Duterte did not issue orders for the... Read more

2016 Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar to Discuss Elections and the Duterte Administration

FIVE PANELISTS from television, print and online news organizations will discuss the media and the 2016 elections and the coverage of issues raised during the first months of... Read more