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Update on the Rolando Ureta case hearing

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility has created a video report on the Sept. 16 hearing of the murder case filed against the alleged killers of radio broadcaster... Read more

High Court upholds guilty verdict against columnist

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Supreme Court of the Philippines on 16 September 2008 affirmed the guilty verdict on a 1999 libel case filed by a customs official against a columnist,... Read more

2008 AMF Journalism Fellowship is now open

The Asia Media Forum Center (AMF) Nepal is inviting practicing Asian journalists in any medium (print, TV, radio, or online) to apply for a journalism fellowship of £1,000 (1,762... Read more

CMFR Statement: Assault on the Public’s Right to Know

Contact: Kathryn Roja G. Raymundo(02) 894-1326/894-1314staff@cmfr-phil.org The Supreme Court’s affirmation of its March 25 decision in favor of executive privilege undermines the public interest function of the press to... Read more

Publisher jailed for libel, libel conviction of another affirmed

CMFR/Philippines—The publisher of a daily newspaper in Manila was arrested on 4 September 2008 for libel, while another newspaper publisher’s libel conviction was affirmed after a judge denied her... Read more

Reporting Mindanao: ‘A series of unfortunate events’

By Jose Torres Jr. A series of unfortunate events”— from “bad beginnings” in the past to what could be the “penultimate peril” lately —can best describe the situation in... Read more

“Successful” dry run

In addition to the peace talks between the Arroyo administration and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and the resurgent Mindanao conflict, the press also reported the first fully... Read more

The Press on the eve of Martial Law: On a learning curve

by Luis V. Teodoro AMONG the first victims of Ferdinand Marcos’ proclamation of martial law 36 years ago were journalists. A dozen or so mostly print practitioners—men and women... Read more

Mindanao in the news: Some minuses and a few pluses

By Melanie Y. Pinlac and Edsel Van DT. Dura Mindanao is in the news again, more than a year after the beheading of 10 Marine soldiers in Tipo-tipo, Basilan... Read more

Appeals Court reverses decision on a libel case

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Saying it would have “a devastating and catastrophic effect on the freedom of speech and of the press,” the Court of Appeals (CA) reversed on 28 August... Read more