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Tabloid Reporter Shot Dead in Manila; Second Case of Journalist Killed in 2016

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A lone gunman shot dead a reporter for a weekly tabloid in Manila on 27 May 2016. The killing is the second incident of a journalist... Read more

Election Canvassing: Explaining the Rules

CHEERS TO CNN Philippines and Rappler for reporting the rules of the canvassing by Congress of the votes for president and vice president as the legislature began its... Read more

Malacañang Shredding: Chit Chat Journalism

JEERS TO Rappler.com for trivializing a legitimate, important story by running it as chit chat. Using unnamed sources, Rappler published on May 21 “They’re shredding documents at the... Read more

Tacloban radio practitioner is 2016 Plaridel awardee

FRANCISCA “BABES” CUSTODIO, station manager of DYVL- Tacloban City will be conferred the 2016 University of the Philippines (UP) Gawad Plaridel. Named after propagandist Marcelo H. Del Pilar,... Read more

10th Bright Leaf Agricultural Journalism Awards

THE 10TH Bright Leaf Agricultural Journalism Awards, organized by the Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corporation Inc., is now accepting entries from Philippine-based Filipino journalists. The categories of the awards... Read more

Obit

Nurjahan Begum, 91 PIONEER FEMALE JOURNALIST Nurjahan Begum died Monday, May 23. She was 91. Begum was widely regarded as the first female journalist of Bangladesh. She was... Read more

Mischaracterizing Purisima: Arrested, Nabbed or Surrendered?

JEERS TO several media organizations for the headlines in reports that mischaracterized the “arrest” — or “surrender” — of former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Alan Purisima,... Read more

“IT Experts”: Disingenuous Use of Single, Anonymous Source

JEERS TO The Standard for running a one-sided report based on unverified information from a single anonymous source. On May 23, 2016, The Standard published “IT experts: Servers... Read more

Exposing the Perversion of the Party-List System

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for looking into the state of the party-list system. In “Perversion of party-list system hit; SC blamed,” the Inquirer reported how the... Read more

Obit

Rogelio Ordoñez, 75 ACCLAIMED POET, JOURNALIST, AND EDUCATOR Rogelio Ordoñez died Thursday, May 19. He was 75. Ordoñez was the former Editor-in-chief of the alternative newspaper Pinoy Weekly. ... Read more