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  • CPJ calls for probe of killing of journalist

    New York, April 4, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an immediate and full investigation into the shooting death today of part-timenewspaper editor and columnist Orlando Tapios Mendoza.... Read more

  • Tarlac journalist slain

    A community journalist was gunned down by unidentified men on his way home last Sunday (02 April 2006) in Tarlac City, around 110 kilometers north of Manila. Orlando Mendoza,... Read more

  • Negros media under AFP crosshair?

    BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental — A top Negros Occidental-based military officer claimed that a closed down local paper in 2004 was being revived as a propaganda tool of the... Read more

  • Covering a ‘coup’: Lost in Fort Bonifacio

    By Booma B. Cruz SO WHAT really happened in Fort Bonifacio on Feb. 26? For those watching on television, it was like an unfolding drama.  But for journalists who... Read more

  • The Big Chill at GMA-7

    What Proclamation 1017 did The Big Chill at GMA-7 By Booma B. Cruz In less than 24 hours after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo placed the country under a state of... Read more

  • What is Sedition?

    Don’t be surprised if government officials like Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez are suddenly enumerating the provisions of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines in justifying the continued media... Read more

  • Petition for Certiorari, Prohibition and Declaratory Relief

    (An executive summary) A. Objectives a.    To declare that the Executive Department, represented by the Executive Secretary, the Secretary of Justice, the Director General of the Philippine National Police... Read more

  • ‘No’ To The Dark Days

    After PP 1017, journalists take battle to court ‘No’ To The Dark Days By Hector Bryant L. Macale and Nathan J. Lee PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 1017 may have already been... Read more

  • COMMENTARY || 1017: The President’s Coup

    By Vergel O. Santos CERTAIN things are likely to be overlooked about the presidential proclamation of a state of national emergency—1017. Here are three that deserve particular attention for... Read more

  • The Ultra Tragedy: When Media Followed the Market

    By Luige A. del Puerto AFTER more than 70 people died in a mad rush to get inside a sports complex where a noontime TV extravaganza was to take... Read more