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  • PDEA Agents Harass TV Reporter

      Members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 6 allegedly harassed a reporter from a state-run television channel while she was covering a drug buy-bust operation on July... Read more

  • Assessing the Cost of Duterte’s War on Drugs

      CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for a quick assessment of the record so far of the anti-illegal drugs campaign of the Duterte administration that the... Read more

  • FOI EO: Erroneous and Confusing

      JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for its erroneous and confusing story that said the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill has been signed into law. The Bulletin’s front-page report... Read more

  • PCIJ Websites Attacked

      CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Manila-based Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) reported an attack on its websites — www.pcij.org and www.pcij.org/blog. CMFR confirmed the incident with PCIJ executive director... Read more

  • War on Drugs: Mapping, Charting the Killings

      CHEERS TO ABS-CBNNews.com for providing a map and  charts on the death toll in  the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. On July 13, the news website of ABS-CBN... Read more

  • Bontoc Women still Man the Night Watch

    “Bontoc women still man the night watch,” was first published in the Nordis (Northern Dispatch Weekly) on July 3, 2016. By Kimberlie Ngabit-Quitasol/ Nordis (Northern Dispatch Weekly)   BONTOC, Mountain Province... Read more

  • What Now with this FOI-EO?

    NOT TO rain on anyone’s parade and, clearly, with no intention to bash initiatives to support freedom of information in government – the media and advocates would be remiss... Read more

  • Lowering the Age of Criminal Liability: What to Be Considered?

      AMONG THE first bills filed in the House of Representatives of the 17th Congress was House Bill No. 002 of Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez and Capiz... Read more

  • Victory at The Hague: Reporting the PCA Ruling

      THE MUCH-AWAITED ruling on the Philippine complaint against China over the latter’s intrusions into Philippine waters was finally handed down on Thursday, July 12, by the Hague-based Permanent Court... Read more

  • 2016 Holcim Philippines- PPI Journalism Awards

      FILIPINO JOURNALISTS working for a print media outfit are invited to send entries to the Holcim-Philippine Press Institute Journalism Awards for Sustainable Construction (JASCOR). The competition aims to... Read more