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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

Proofreading error?

JEERS TO THE Manila Times for erroneously associating the acronym of the Philippine armed forces with an international news wire organization in a report published in their online... Read more

Obit

AMERICAN JOURNALIST Bill McLaughlin died last March 7. He was 76. AMERICAN JOURNALIST Donald Edward Singleton died last March 2. He was 77. Read more

Chronicle (UPDATED)

6th Digital Filipino Web Awards recognizes News Media Organizations; 2014 National Press Club Journalism Awards Read more

Out of context

By Luis V. Teodoro PROVIDING CONTEXT is not a strong suit of the dominant media,* whether in the form of a few paragraphs recalling the background of events, ... Read more