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  • Media lawyer and family threatened with death

    CMFR/Philippines—The lawyer handling the class action suit of Filipino journalists against presidential spouse Jose Miguel Arroyo received several threatening text messages and a phone call on 3 January 2007.... Read more

  • Pampanga reporter arrested for libel

    CMFR/Philippines—A reporter in Pampanga, a province 80 kilometers north of Manila, was arrested on 19 December 2006 for libel. Dante Fabian, a senior reporter for Sun.Star Pampanga, was arrested... Read more

  • Writing for Radio

    Finding romance in a second choice Writing for radio Melbe S. Estonilo NEVER dreamed of becoming a radio broadcaster, much less a radio news writer.  When I took up... Read more

  • Fighting Back (updated)

    Journalists who are set to file a civil class action suit today on behalf of the Philippine press against presidential spouse Jose Miguel Arroyo updates its pooled editorial on... Read more

  • Teaching Journalists: What a professor hopes his students have learned

    What a professor hopes his students have learned Teaching Journalists By Luis V. Teodoro I CAME to the teaching of journalism armed with both practice as well as a... Read more

  • Chronicle

    Gov’t media group abolished THE GOVERNMENT Mass Media Group (GMMG), created to supervise and control government-owned mass media outlets, has been abolished. The move returned the government’s information dissemination... Read more

  • Obituary

    Soliven, 77 VETERAN JOURNALIST Maximo “Max” Soliven died of acute pulmonary and cardiac arrest on Nov. 24 in Tokyo, Japan. He was 77. Before his death, Soliven was publisher... Read more

  • Crisis: International

    Bomb suspect sues Swaziland paper THE TIMES, one of Swaziland’s papers, has been sued for E75,000 (approx. US$10,000) on Nov. 27 by a man accused of recently bombing government... Read more

  • Crisis: National

    Radio broadcaster-activist killed A broadcaster was gunned down by an unidentified assassin on Nov. 27 in Cagayan. According to a report of the World Association of Commu-nity Radio Broadcasters,... Read more

  • Reporters and editors take a good look at journalism schools: Are They Good Enough?

    Reporters and editors take a good look at journalism schools Are They Good Enough? By Venus L. Elumbre and Jose Bimbo F. Santos OUR YEARS of journalism school should... Read more