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Preparing for the elections

Cheers to the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) for its timely focus on next year’s elections, which are only a little more than a year away. ANC started looking into... Read more

Covering the Impeachment Missing: The Voice of the People

In apparent awareness of the trial’s significance, the major networks and broadsheets as well as online news sites understandably invested resources in its coverage by sending multiple... Read more

Columnist killed in Laguna province

Police have yet to identify suspects in the killing of a columnist for a local daily in San Pablo City, Laguna last 24 April 2012. The local police has... Read more

World Press Freedom Day 2012

In observance of World Press Freedom Day this year, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has created a special online page calling attention and action to three... Read more

Send a Call to Aquino to End Impunity in the Philippines

Send a call to President Benigno Aquino III to end impunity in the Philippines. Read more

Six surprises in (un)covering Myanmar

Going to Myanmar as a journalist was unthinkable only six months ago Read more

The press as judge

JEERS TO Korina Sanchez for a column in the Cebu City newspaper The Freeman in which she prejudged the guilt of Philippine Navy personnel on the ongoing Philip... Read more

‘Correct way’

CHEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for a story on how to best refer to people with disability. Read more

Raising awareness

CHEERS TO GMA News & Research and GMA Special Assignments Team for raising awareness on safe water and basic sanitation as a human right. Read more

The practice of summoning journalists to testify in court or during congressional hearings is based on the popular assumption that they possess secret information of relevance to the trial... Read more