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Covering high profile crimesFocus on the sensational

The media coverage of the killing of Italian priest Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, Ramgen Bautista (former actor and son of former senator Ramon Revilla Sr.) and Ricky Pempengco (father of... Read more

Media at workBeating the war drums in Mindanao

ON Nov. 2, 2011, The Manila Times, the country’s oldest newspaper, came out with a banner story that outscooped everybody else. “Mindanao War Inevitable,” the headline screamed in big black... Read more

Media warmongeringPress calls for more violence in Mindanao

The coverage of the armed confrontation between government troops and members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Basilan, Zamboanga Sibugay, and Lanao del Norte reversed the gains... Read more

The Persistence of Impunity:A Bad Start for the New Year

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) on the killing of Christopher “Cris” Guarin THE KILLING of General Santos newspaper publisher and RMN blocktimer Christopher Guarin hardly a... Read more

Specious and Disingenuous (updated)

CMFR notes that Ms. Vitug’s attempt to get the side of UST and Corona, and her disclosing that she was either rebuffed or ignored, were both in keeping with... Read more

Asian Media Barometer: The Philippines 2011Excess of freedom, impunity; Deficit of ethics, self-criticism

The Philippine media community, one of the freest and most rambunctious in all of Asia, is an incredible, hopefully not incorrigible, story of dissonant currents and practices. Read more

TV reporter warned of plot to kill him

A field reporter of a TV network said he has learned of an assassination plot against him for a report on illegal logging that he did involving a businessman... Read more

PJR Reports November-December 2011

SOME Filipino journalists can rank among the best in the world. Since the end of the martial law period the best investigative reports have not only looked into those... Read more

Radio broadcaster wounded in ambush

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A day after the first International Day to End Impunity last November 23, another radio broadcaster was critically wounded in an ambush in Cagayan De Oro City.... Read more

Their kind of “Journalism”

In a supposed interview with Marjo Tucay, editor in chief of the University of the Philippines student newspaper the Philippine Collegian,GMA7 TV's Howie Severino implied that by... Read more