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2016 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism

The Kurt Schork Memorial Fund is now accepting entries to its 2015 international awards for journalism, which aims to recognize the work of local reporters and freelance journalists in... Read more

Sidebar | Candidates for Senate and Party-list: Hardly Noticed

AMONG THE newspapers CMFR reviewed from Feb. 9 to 20, The Standard was found to feature Romualdez quite frequently. Romualdez, Leyte’s 1st District representative, is on his third term. He... Read more

Candidates for Senate and Party-list: Hardly Noticed

TWO WEEKS into the campaign period for national positions, both print and broadcast media have mostly focused on the presidential and vice presidential race to the near exclusion of... Read more

Radio Broadcaster Convicted of Libel, Radio Station Ordered to Close in Gingoog City

CMFR/ Philippines- A radio blocktimer was convicted of libel while a local radio station was ordered to stop operations in Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental. Misamis Oriental is 1389 kilometers south of... Read more

First Election Debate Goes Pfft: Coverage Filled with Sound bytes and Pull Quotes

GIVEN THE media hype and hoopla surrounding the holding of the first debate, the program went pfft, with little excitement to engage. What substance could have been drawn... Read more

“Baby Snake”: TV5 Slithers Down the Bottom

JEERS TO TV5’s Aksyon Tanghali’s Balita-Serye segment for airing an extended report about a 37-year-old woman in Barangay Palkan, Polomolok, South Cotabato, who supposedly gave birth to a snake.... Read more

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