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  • An incident becomes a war

    IN THE afternoon of June 18, a group of University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman students armed with baseball bats and lead pipes attacked two others inside the campus.... Read more

  • An ad masquerading as a report

    JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for making an advertisement look like a news article. Read more

  • Instant celebrity

    JEERS TO The Manila Times for publishing on its front page a report on Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s guesting at a primetime comedy-variety show that belonged more in... Read more

  • Obit

    Iranian American journalist Hamid Golpira died Tuesday, July 7, after a six-month battle with lung cancer. He was 55; Pioneering broadcast journalist Marlene Sanders, one of the first women... Read more

  • Careless and simplistic about suicide

    JEERS TO several news organizations for another careless coverage on a suicide case. Read more

  • PR in Op-Eds

    JEERS TO three major newspapers for publishing opinion articles that seemed to have been based on press releases. They not only used the same words; they also served the... Read more

  • Anti-communist group threatens journalists via SMS

    CMFR/ PHILIPPINES – A self-proclaimed anti-communist group allegedly threatened via text message several journalists in Davao and Cagayan de Oro when they failed to cover a press conference hosted... Read more

  • Misleading

    JEERS TO The Daily Tribune for its misleading story on the cause of further delays on the Pag-asa Island repairs. Read more

  • Aquino’s hair

    JEERS TO The Philippine Star for publishing a report on President Benigno Aquino III’s jokes in his speech during the graduation rites of the Technical Education and Skills Development... Read more

  • Front page ‘love affair’

    JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for prioritizing a dating scandal over pressing issues. Read more