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  • Publisher threatened after condemning media killings

    CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A newspaper publisher in General Santos City claimed he received a threatening text (SMS) message last 17 January 2012 after calling for the arrest of the killers... Read more

  • Looking back

    CHEERS TO online news sites Bulatlat.com and InterAksyon.com for dedicating a page containing reports and analyses on the Hacienda Luisita issue. Read more

  • In-depth report?

    Jeers to Newsbreak for its incomplete report on the contraceptive ban in Bataan where seven barangays in Bataan passed an ordinance which banned the sale of modern forms of... Read more

  • Highlighting what’s needed

    Cheers to Reporter’s Notebook for highlighting something not normally in the press radar: the continued crimes against deaf women in the country and the need for interpreters ... Read more

  • Desecrated corpses

    Cheers to Reporter’s Notebook for its Nov. 1 special report “Nilapastangang Bangkay (Desecrated Corpses)” that reported on how the dead are sometimes used to hold illegal gambling operations, among... Read more

  • Harassments marked start of 2012

    CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Attacks against journalists and media workers marked the start of 2012 in the Philippines. Read more

  • Exam leak

    Jeers to The Manila Times for its biased and unsubstantiated banner story on the alleged bar exams leakage. Read more

  • On LPG taxis

    Cheers to the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its series that looked at the alleged negative effects of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)-fueled taxis. Read more

  • Puffery

    Jeers to Manila Bulletin for a front-page report on the courtesy call of Gwendoline Ruais, Philippine representative to the Miss World pageant, on Vice President Jejomar Binay. Read more

  • Covering conflict journalists for peace

    The media were at it again, drumbeating war. Biased, sensational and contextually inaccurate reporting of the bloody encounter in Al-Barka, Basilan between Philippine Army troops and Moro rebels last Oct.... Read more