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Understanding pork barrel politics

CHEERS TO GMA News and Public Affairs, Special Assignments Team, and News Research for its investigative series explaining what the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), also known as pork... Read more

Armed men threaten broadcaster, family

CMFR/Philippines – Five men on motorcycles, at least two of whom were armed, pointed a handgun and an assault rifle at a radio station manager, his family and another... Read more

Media groups, journalists file 9th petition vs Cybercrime Prevention Act

TWENTY MEDIA organizations and more than 250 individuals, comprised mostly of journalists and media practitioners, filed the ninth petition with the Supreme Court (SC) against the Cybercrime Prevention Act,... Read more

CMFR on Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012

What is the Cybercrime Law and why are media practitioners asking the Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional? Read more

Mixed blessing, or mixed curse?“Blocktiming” in Bacolod City

BACOLOD CITY – It is one of those “open secrets” in Philippine broadcasting. Politicians would buy chunks of radio time and populate the programs with broadcasters who would, like regular... Read more

Journalist assaulted by businessman

CMFR/ Philippines - An editor of a weekly newspaper was assaulted by a businessman and brother of a town mayor in the province of Sorsogon last 23 September 2012.... Read more

PJR Reports August-September 2012

THE PEOPLE were its first victims, but the media were at least among the first casualties of Ferdinand Marcos’ declaration of martial law in 1972. Marcos signed the declaration... Read more

Reinventing the airports

CHEERS TO BusinessMirror for a report about a study on what improvements the country’s airports need to attract more passengers. Read more

Fact check

CHEERS TO InterAksyon.com for a report on the effects of the “pill” after the claims of Sen. Tito Sotto III in his speech in the Senate of its supposedly... Read more

Why we need an FOI Act

IN 2008, I wrote about PCIJ’s experience in accessing documents on projects funded with official development assistance. I was just in my second month on the job at the... Read more