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  • UPDATED: Tabloid reporter shot dead; 140th since 1986

    CMFR/Philippines – A reporter for a Manila tabloid was shot at least four times inside her home and died in a hospital in Bacoor City, Cavite province on 6... Read more

  • Obit

    FILIPINO BROADCASTER Harry Gasser died from complications of a stroke last April 3. He was 76. AMERICAN JOURNALIST Gail Kerr died last March 25. She was 52. AMERICAN JOURNALIST Jonathan Edward... Read more

  • Chronicle

    World Press Freedom Day Youth Poster Competition; 2014 Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism Read more

  • Broadcaster files libel suit vs newspaper reporter, editors

    CMFR/Philippines – A broadcast journalist filed on March 24 a libel complaint against a reporter and the editors of a broadsheet that published a news report that named him... Read more

  • Obit

    CANADIAN JOURNALIST Heather Robertson died of cancer last March 19. She was 72. AMERICAN REPORTER Robert Joseph “Bob” Thomas died last March 14. He was 92. Read more

  • Repeating the same mistakes

    JEERS TO SEVERAL news organizations for committing the same old errors in much of media coverage of suicide. Read more

  • Fire protection? What’s that?

    Cheers to ABS-CBN 2's TV Patrol for reviewing the current state of fire protection in the country and for looking into the unused 2 billion pesos budget of the... Read more

  • International Crisis

    Media executives attacked in Hong Kong; second incident in a month Four masked men attacked two media executives on 19 March 2014 in Hong Kong. It was the second... Read more

  • Radio broadcaster gets death threats

    CMFR/Philippines – A radio broadcaster in Kalibo town, the capital of Aklan province, has been receiving threatening text messages since February 2014 when he began criticizing the town mayor... Read more

  • Breaking confidentiality agreement (UPDATED)

    JEERS TO GMA 7's Born to Be Wild for breaching a confidentiality agreement with a source by disclosing the location of an unstudied and endemic spider species. Read more