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Update: The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012

IT HAS been a year since President Benigno S. Aquino III signed the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. The Anti-Cybercrime Law took effect on October 3, 2012 but the... Read more

Obit

Cusipag, 74 FILIPINO JOURNALIST Ruben Javier Cusipag died last July 9. He was 74. Gonzalez, 78 FILIPINO JOURNALIST Raul Gonzalez died of cancer last May 15. He was 78. Daniels, 74 AMERICAN MAGAZINE editor... Read more

Chronicle

10th Lasallian Scholarum Awards De La Salle University named the winners of the 10th Lasallian Scholarum Awards last September 3. Climate Change Media Awards The Climate Change Commission in partnership with the... Read more

The killing of journalists and the culture of violence and impunity

MOSTLY UNREMARKED in these times of corruption and other scandals is the continuing killing of journalists. Eighteen have been killed for their work in the three years of... Read more

Human rights, press freedom, and the FOI bill

By Luis V. Teodoro THE FREEDOM of Information bill filed by the Right to Know. Right Now! (R2KRN) Coalition is likely to pass the Senate, if experience during the 14th... Read more

Obit

BRITISH JOURNALIST David Frost died of a heart attack last August 31. Frost was best known for his series of interviews with resigned US President Richard Nixon in 1977... Read more

FOI will be passed in the 16th Congress, says Poe

Senator Grace Poe, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media, is confident that the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill will be passed in the 16th... Read more

Editor shot dead; 18th since 2010

A newspaper editor/publisher was shot dead on Sept. 4, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro. Read more

Two journalists convicted of libel

CMFR/Philippines – Two journalists were convicted for libel in the past few days, one in Cebu City on 29 August 2013 and another in Digos City, Davao province, on... Read more

Group of municipal councilors bars journalists from covering election

CMFR/Philippines – An official barred journalists from covering the election of officers of a provincial league of municipal councilors in the town of Virac, province of Catanduanes, on 2... Read more