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  • Reporting On An Illness: Covering Mike Arroyo’s medical emergency

    Covering Mike Arroyo’s medical emergency Reporting On An Illness HEALTH issues are very important stories, especially when they concern the highest officials of the land or their families. From... Read more

  • What To Do in a Hostage Situation

    THE DUCAT hostage-taking crisis is a coverage replete with lessons. Members of the press would do well to remember them in order to avoid repeating mistakes which, at best,... Read more

  • Held Hostage to an Event

    ‘May Uzi si Mr. Ducat!’ Held hostage to an event By Hector Bryant L. Macale TELEVISION VIEWERS watched in horror last March 28 when Armando Ducat Jr., owner of... Read more

  • Online Monitors

    Assessing the party-list system Bulatlat wrote an informative and insightful two-part special report that focused on a very crucial question as this year’s elections draw near: “Nine years after... Read more

  • TV Monitors

    A pro-GMA station Primetime Teledyaryo, the news program of state-owned NBN-4, leaves no doubt that it is a pro-administration station; its reporters, administration spokespersons. Last March 19, Joseph Parafina... Read more

  • Print Monitors

    Sharing a point of view The Manila Standard Today seems to be looking at the elections through the lens of the administration. Quoting Team Unity (TU) spokesman Antonio “Tonypet”... Read more

  • Speaking of Media

    A simple arrangement “I’ve heard stories about reporters who are now on the payroll either of re-electionist senators or those taking a first crack at the senatorial campaign. This... Read more

  • Editor’s Note: Elections and acts of terror

    ELECTIONS HAVE always turned the spotlight on politicians, particularly the candidates. What they do—and what they don’t do—is the stuff that journalists write about. This issue of the PJR... Read more

  • Arrest of Ocampo triggers surge in party list elections coverage

    The filing of charges against Bayan Muna’s Congressman Saturnino “Satur” Ocampo, his arrest, the attempt to fly him to Leyte, and his detention at the Manila Police District headquarters... Read more

  • Solon prevented from speaking to the media

    Members of the press were prevented from interviewing detained Bayan Muna (Nation First) Representative Satur Ocampo by his police custodians, who claimed that media interviews would be risky for... Read more