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  • Obit

    Noel Vero Perfecto, 67 VETERAN JOURNALIST Noel Vero Perfecto succumbed to heart attack Saturday, February 20. He was 67. Perfecto was a reporter for the state-owned People’s Television Network... Read more

  • Learning from EDSA

      EVEN BEFORE the February 22, 1986 press conference called by then Minister of National Defense Juan Ponce Enrile and then Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)  Vice-Chief of... Read more

  • EDSA 1: A Recollection

      ON FEBRUARY 22, 1986, a Saturday, I was coming home exhausted from a Namfrel (National Movement for Free Elections) thanksgiving mass in Marikina.  It was about 8 pm.... Read more

  • Absent from EDSA

    SOMETIME IN August 1985, I had to leave the country to be with my family in the US.  It was a sabbatical away from work that my husband and... Read more

  • 2016 Elections: Tracking Local Politics

      CHEERS TO Rappler for collating information regarding the plans for the 2016 elections of the members of the 16th congress. In “MAP: Where will members of Congress go... Read more

  • Gratuitous link

    JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for taking a cheap shot at the Aquino government with a headline that gratuitously links administration projects and brothels in the area. On... Read more

  • Reviewing Party-list Performance

    CHEERS TO ABS-CBNnews.com and ABS-CBN 2’s TV Patrol for its effort to evaluate the performance of the 2013 elected party-list representatives in the 16th Congress. On February 12, ABS-CBNNews.com published Gigi... Read more

  • IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards

    FULL-TIME OR freelance women journalists can now be nominated for the Courage in Journalism Awards sponsored by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF). The awards aim to recognize women journalists... Read more

  • Obit

    Heikal, 92 VETERAN EGYPTIAN journalist Mohammed Hassanein Heikal died Wednesday, February 17. He was 92. Heikal was the editor of Cairo’s Al-Ahram daily from 1957 to 1974. He was... Read more

  • Radio Reporter Shot Dead in Zamboanga del Sur; First Journalist Killed in 2016

    CMFR/Philippines – An unidentified assailant shot dead a radio broadcaster inside his house in Purok Bagong Silang, Poblacion, Zamboanga del Sur on February 16. Zamboanga del Sur is 1156... Read more