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Newsbreak editor and staff members face libel suit arraignment

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The editor in chief and four other members of the Manila-based Newsbreak magazine have been summoned for arraignment by an Ilocos Sur court in connection to a... Read more

Notes on CMFR’s Media Monitor

In monitoring media coverage, CMFR reviews the text/broadcast output of the media organization. CMFR’s critique focuses on the news “product” or text. We do not normally look at the... Read more

A Year After: The Press and the Aug. 23 Hostage Taking

One year after the bloody Aug. 23, 2010 hostage taking incident in Manila, has the Philippine press learned any lesson from the coverage? Read more

Lynch Mobs and Rabble Rousers

As the often colorful language of Filipino journalists would put it, the “XXX” episode was an “SS” story, “SS” being shorthand for masturbation. Read more

No place for apathy

It was in 2003 when I first covered a fact-finding mission on human rights violations (HRVs). I was months into what was then the newly established progressive media venture,... Read more

Fellowships open for 15th Lopez Jaena Journalism Workshop in October; Workshop to focus on justice and human rights

The University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) will hold the 15th Lopez Jaena Journalism Workshop from October 19 to 25 at the UP College of... Read more

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility in cooperation with the Asian Institute of Management Policy Center, with a grant from the National Endowment for Democracy, invites you to... Read more

Obit: Breen, 65

Thomas Breen III, a veteran American journalist who covered the Philippines in the twilight of the Marcos dictatorship, died of cardiac arrest at his home last June 22, 2011.... Read more

On the Christopher Lao controversy

What happened to Christopher Lao is an issue of social media excess more than it is of journalism ethics. Read more

Freedom of Information Policy Forum

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility with a grant from the National Endowment for Democracy invites you to a policy forum on the Freedom of Information. Read more