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TV Monitors

Not by numbers alone MEDIA’S REPORTAGE on surveys has been very spotty. The background of the studies is often forgotten. For instance, Bandila reported last May 3 on a... Read more

Zimbabwe gov’t monitoring communications ZIMBABWE PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has signed a law allowing the interception and monitoring of communications transmitted through a telecommunication, postal, or any other related service... Read more

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