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Radio anchor sues newspaper for libel

CMFR/Philippines – A radio broadcaster filed a libel complaint against a national daily newspaper and two former government officials on 26 August 2014. The complaint stemmed from a March... Read more

Chronicle

BusinessMirror owner acquires 34% of RPN-9; Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program Read more

The Aquino assassination: The challenge to media

By Melinda Quintos de Jesus Because I have been a journalist for so long, this lecture involves personal remembrance. Hopefully this will not get in the way of the main... Read more

Obit

FILIPINO JOURNALIST Relly Carpio died from a respiratory disease and cardiac arrest last August 13. He was 39. AMERICAN JOURNALIST and editor Barbara Funkhouser died last August 15. She was... Read more

Biopiracy

CHEERS TO GMA-7’s Balitanghali and State of the Nation with Jessica Soho for looking into the issue of biopiracy in the Philippines. Read more

Solar’s news in Philippine languages

CHEERS TO Solar News Channel for its continuing effort to deliver relevant news in different Philippine languages in its two news programs. Read more

Updated: Journalist gets death threat over Ampatuan Massacre report

CMFR/Philippines – A journalist received threatening text messages on 12 August 2014 after reporting that some state and private prosecutors may have been bribed to fix the Ampatuan (Maguindanao)... Read more

Witness in killing of journalist shot dead; journalists mauled, threatened at gun point

CMFR/Philippines – Unidentified men shot dead an eye witness in the killing of a journalist in Digos City in 2010 on 31 July 2014 in Davao City. Meanwhile, a... Read more

Councilor includes journalists in libel complaint against fellow politician

CMFR/Philippines – A councilor in Cagayan de Oro City filed a libel complaint on 2 July 2014 against a fellow city councilor, but included the editor-in-chief and the reporters... Read more

Reporting Aquino’s fifth SONA

THE PRESIDENT of the Philippines appears before a joint session of Congress and speaks to the public every year to report on the state of the nation. By tradition,... Read more