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In the Philippines: Three Journalists Were Killed for Their Work in 2015
THE CENTER for Media Freedom and Responsibility takes exception to the statement in the 2015 Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) report on the killing of journalists worldwide that... Read more
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TV News Team Ambushed in Marawi City
CMFR/ Philippines – Four unidentified men on two motorcycles ambushed a television news team in Marawi City on December 26. Marawi City is 1497 kilometers south of Manila. No... Read more
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Militia Leader Threatens to Ambush Journalists in Mindanao
CMFR/ PHILIPPINES – A leader of an anti-communist militia group implicated in the killing of several members of an indigenous people's community in Mindanao allegedly threatened to ambush Mindanao-based... Read more
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Pemberton conviction: Admirable professionalism by the press
THE KILLING of Jennifer Laude,a Filipino transgender, by Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton of the US Marines on October 11, 2014, is one of those cases that, because... Read more
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Naming the ponente: Undermining the SC and elections
JEERS TO several media organizations for identifying the supposed ponente of the decision on the disqualification case against Senator Grace Poe pending before the Supreme Court. Read more
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Keeping Track of PDAF Scam
CHEERS TO ABS-CBN 2’s TV Patrol for a report that looked into the slow progress in the investigation of lawmakers implicated in the pork-barrel scandal and the failure by... Read more
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International Terrorism as Local News
MORE THAN 120 people were killed in the coordinated attacks in six locations by the international terrorist group Islamic State (IS) on November 13 in Paris. The ruthless killings... Read more