CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Philstar.com, TV5 reports explain confidential and intelligence fund

CHEERS TO Philstar.com and TV5 for reports that explained what confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) are, and how public officials use them for their operations. CIF are “lump-sum funds”... Read more

QC court convicts Baguio-based journo of cyber libel

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A Quezon City court convicted Baguio-based journalist and Rappler correspondent Frank Cimatu of cyber libel on December 13 over a 2017 Facebook post that the court said... Read more

Gains and Losses: Media review foreign SWF practices

CHEERS TO GMA-7’s 24 Oras, VERA Files, and Rappler for reports that reviewed how other countries manage their respective Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF). While the media correctly produced explainers... Read more

Maharlika wealth fund invites public scrutiny

ANYONE CLOSELY watching the media since December began would not have missed the Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF) proposed by the House of Representatives and backed by the government’s economic... Read more

A Step Towards Justice: Media Report “Drug War” Victim’s Corrected Cause of Death Certificate

CHEERS TO reports which called attention to the need for truth and accuracy in the documentation of deaths involved in Rodrigo Duterte’s “drug war.” Going back to the falsification... Read more

Five women, five stories, one struggle: Bulatlat shares lived realities of human rights defenders

CHEERS TO Bulatlat for two follow-up stories posted on November 29 and December 1, which deserve the same recognition as the first three stories on women human rights defenders... Read more

Five women, five stories, one struggle: Bulatlat shares lived realities of human rights defenders

CHEERS TO Bulatlat for its report on five women and their struggle to defend human rights in the country. It was in fitting observance of International Women Human Rights... Read more

Year of retirements: ABS-CBN’s Ging Reyes and GMA’s Marissa Flores retire

TWO INFLUENTIAL leaders in the country’s biggest newsrooms retired this year: Maria Regina “Ging” Reyes, News Senior Vice President at ABS-CBN this December and Marissa L. Flores, GMA News... Read more

“Sovereign wealth fund” proposed; Agri product prices rise as holidays near

THE WEEK closed with the proposed “sovereign wealth fund” making headlines, with stories based mainly on what Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno had to say about it – that it... Read more

One Balita Pilipinas interview bares government ignorance of SOGIE and LGBT rights

CHEERS TO One PH’s One Balita Pilipinas for its interview on November 21 countering the skewed and discriminatory statements of Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla. The interview asked a... Read more