CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Politics in full swing: As elections draw near, endorsements and controversies dominate local campaign news

METHODOLOGY: From March 21 to April 3, 2022, CMFR reviewed the coverage of leading Manila broadsheets (Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, and Manila Bulletin), three other selected broadsheets... Read more

This Week in Media (April 4 to 8, 2022)

COVID, other challenges surface ahead of Holy Week; Candidates, Comelec gear up for last month before polls Read more

Marcos deficiencies: Covering the Marcoses’ unpaid estate tax

NEWS ABOUT the Marcos family’s unpaid estate tax has sparked public discussion, highlighting the need for well-informed sources and historical context in media coverage. Read more

ANC’s “After The Fact” goes off the air

THE ANC current affairs talk show “After The Fact” aired its last episode on March 30, 2022. Read more

This Week in Media (March 28 to April 1, 2022)

COVID-19 SEEMS to have receded as a government concern, but other problems have made life for most Filipinos as difficult as ever. Read more

Media quick to record warnings election watchdogs

CMFR CHEERS the media accounts highlighting the looming threats to free and fair elections in May. From the start of the national campaign, some citizen groups have warned about... Read more

CNN election reports spotlight marginalized sectors

CHEERS TO CNN Philippines for its program “Sectors in the Sidelines,” which highlights the concerns of those communities that are commonly marginalized in the news. "Sectors in the Sidelines"... Read more

Past, Present, and Future: Media mark Women’s Month

THE COVID-19 pandemic, the May elections, and the conflict in Ukraine and its economic after-shocks could have made it difficult for media to highlight women’s issues during Women’s Month,... Read more

ICSC offers grants to journos in honor of Jaime “Nonoy” Espina

THE INSTITUTE for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), an international non-government organization advocating for fair climate policy and low carbon, climate-resilient development, is offering journalists the ‘Jaime Espina Klima... Read more

Fuel Crisis takes over front pages; print and online media report unverified campaign claims

The red-tagging story was also picked up by The Philippine Star, Manila Standard, and Manila Times in their front pages. Star and Standard cited an ‘intelligence report’ and Duterte’s... Read more