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Online news website blocked on Facebook

CMFR/Philippines – The online social networking site Facebook has disallowed the sharing of links of a news website in the Philippines since December 2013 for allegedly being “abusive” and... Read more

Reporter barred from covering city council meeting

CMFR/Philippines – A reporter in Lipa City in the province of Batangas was barred from covering a city council meeting on 13 January 2014. His stories on the city... Read more

Chronicle

RPN-ALIW Broadcasting Corporation tie-up Radio Philippines Network and Aliw Broadcasting Corporation have entered into an agreement to widen each other’s reach. In a report from Solar News website, RPN... Read more

Obit

FILIPINO PHOTOJOURNALIST Jose “Joe” Sarmiento died last December 31. He was 86. AMERICAN NEWSPAPER editor Donald Forst died of colon cancer last January 4. He was 81. Read more

Foreign nationals assault news crew in southern Philippines

CMFR/Philippines –Three foreign nationals running an allegedly illegal roadside eatery and karaoke house in Zamboanga City assaulted a member of TV news crew on 11 December 2013. The news... Read more

Problem solving journalism

THE FIRST blog for 2014 may be a good time to suggest once again that we need to change the way we do journalism. This is not the first... Read more

The never ending story

The elections of 2013 were over only seven months ago. But preparations are already under way for the elections of 2016, when the electorate once more goes to... Read more

(PART 2) Reporting ‘Yolanda’: More needed from the media

Media should always learn from past experience, but climate change and the unprecedented magnitude of recent disasters signal a new level of learning. The media mind set needs to... Read more

(PART 1) Reporting ‘Yolanda’: More needed from the media

"The media have roles to play before, during, and after a disaster. In many incidents, journalists are among the first to arrive on the scene and report on events... Read more

SEAPA: Urgent and decisive response needed to curb media killings

It is a terrible coincidence that there have been three murders of journalists in the Philippines between International Day to End Impunity (IDEI on 23 November) and the International... Read more