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  • Obit

    AMERICAN PHOTOJOURNALIST Michel du Cille died of a heart attack last December 11. He was 58. Read more

  • Small-scale mining revisited

    CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its two-part special on small-scale mining and how a small community in South Cotabato can serve as a template for small-scale mines... Read more

  • Background missing

    JEERS TO The Philippine Star for failing to provide background in a story involving suspended Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Alan Purisima. Read more

  • Explaining the different “Ruby” forecasts

    CHEERS TO GMA News Online for explaining what was in everybody’s minds as Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) was approaching the Philippines: Why did the forecasts of Ruby's path not agree? Read more

  • Callous Korina

    JEERS TO TV Patrol’s Korina Sanchez for her insensitive and irresponsible remarks on Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) in her program’s Dec. 3 newscast. Read more

  • Ending impunity is a state responsibility

    By Luis V. Teodoro “BIZARRE” WAS how an American journalist, who’s in the Philippines to write an article on the killing of journalists, described what he’s finding out, among them: Read more

  • Philippines lifts ban on nine Hong Kong journalists

    CMFR/Philippines – The Philippine government banned nine Hong Kong journalists from entering the Philippines for “heckling” President Benigno S. Aquino III in October 2013. In response to criticism from... Read more

  • International concern, local indifference

    IN A disturbing—and irony-ridden—demonstration of official hostility to the Constitutional guarantee of press freedom, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has prevented journalists from covering the trial of the alleged... Read more

  • A million candles

    The candle lighting ceremony at the EDSA Shrine is a quiet memorial. CMFR will lead the lighting of A Million Candles on November 23, 2014 (Sunday), at 6:00 p.m.... Read more

  • Obit

    FILIPINO BROADCASTER Raffy Marcelo died of cardiac arrest last November 15. He was 65. FILIPINO BROADCASTER Oswaldo Gamay Sihagan died last November 8. He was 58. Read more